DevOps Engineer - IT Disaster Recovery
Edinburgh (1 day per week on site)
£500 per day - Outside IR35 - 3 month contract
Maximum 60 days to be worked across this contract duration based on rate shared at top of document.
We're supporting our main public sector client on a mid‑flight IT Disaster Recovery programme and are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to help deliver and validate DR capability for a set of business‑critical Chamber IT services.
This role is hands‑on and delivery‑focused, centred on building, testing and refining Azure‑based DR scripts and ensuring recovery objectives are met both at application and estate level.
The role
You'll work closely with the internal ITDR project team to complete and test Disaster Recovery scripts, ensuring environments can be rebuilt reliably, repeatably and within agreed RTOs.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Developing and finalising IT Disaster Recovery scripts to recover in‑scope Azure applications
2. Running individual and concurrent DR tests to validate:Successful application recoveryRTOs for single applications and full estate recovery
3. Troubleshooting and iterating scripts where issues are identified
4. Building Azure DevOps pipelines to automate environment creation and deployment
5. Ensuring all dependent components (APIs, databases, networking, security, key vaults, permissions) are correctly configured
6. Reviewing deployed DR environments with internal teams to confirm scripts function as expected
7. Producing clear script documentation and runbooks
8. Carrying out knowledge transfer with internal developers throughout the contract
Technical environment / deliverables
9. Bicep, PowerShell & AZ CLI scripts to automate Azure environment creation
10. Azure DevOps pipelines for script execution and deployments
11. Concurrent and individual DR testing with confirmed RTOs
12. Script documentation and guidance for BAU teams
Essential skills & experience
Strong experience as a DevOps Engineer, specifically in an IT Disaster Recovery or resilience context, including:
13. Extensive Bicep expertise
14. Strong Azure scripting (PowerShell & AZ CLI)
15. Azure DevOps pipelines and tooling
16. Azure infrastructure and deployment pipeline builds
17. Building scripts from existing architecture diagrams
18. Networking and security configuration (permissions, gateways, WAF, DNS, Key Vaults)
19. Azure services including:App ServicesApplication GatewaysSQL DatabasesLogic AppsWeb Application Firewall rules
20. Git source control
21. Troubleshooting using Azure tooling (. Application Insights)
22. Clear communication and stakeholder engagement
23. Experience with knowledge transfer / handover
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.