Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Full Time

Senior DevOps Engineer Fully remote £530 per day outside IR35

This role is an interim senior devops engineer, joining a growing engineering function which is in the early stages of a program to migrate its legacy monolithic solutions into a cloud-native microservices platform. They need to begin the process of building the devops function to support this transition.

To assist with this, we are looking for a contract devops engineer to improve automation within the engineering function, initially focusing on:

• Ensuring all code and solutions are source controlled;
• Implementing automated routes to production for all bespoke software products;
• Cataloguing current issues with our test environments, and working with me to build and deliver a plan to improve our environments.
• Coaching a junior member of the DevOps team.

The successful candidate will need extensive experience with:

• Deep knowledge of Git / source control models
• Azure (service bus, functions, Logic Apps, databases, service fabric, VMs).
• Azure’s security model
• Managing Azure AD groups/permissions
• Infrastructure as code including:
  • Chef/Puppet
  • Terraform
  • ARM Templates
• CI/CD using Azure Pipelines
• Extensive knowledge of application/infrastructure security
  • Ethical hacking experience/certification would be a bonus
• Automated testing

I’m also looking for someone with a solid understanding of governance around infrastructure/deployments:

• Principle of least privilege
• Release management process
• Asset management
• Infrastructure/application architecture