Azure DevOps Engineer - Inside IR35, Hybrid Manchester

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A University client of ours is looking for an Azure DevOps Engineer, working on a 3 month initial contract (inside of IR35). This role will involve some hybrid working with 2 days per week onsite in Manchester.

Role

Senior and mid-level platform engineers, who are hands on and possess a deep understanding of the Azure ecosystem to join delivery teams working on some of the most exciting digital programmes within the education sector. The University has a clearly defined IT digital roadmap leading to 2024/2025. As an Azure expert, you'll work in small product teams alongside developers, architects, designers, analysts, and product owners to deliver automation, tooling and cloud infrastructure.

Working in hybrid UOM model of up to 2 days a week in office / 3 days WFH.

Responsibilities

* Design, build and maintain secure cloud infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, OWASP and release pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps

* Deploy and monitor software and configuration changes with Ansible, Jfrog, AppD, Azure Monitor, etc.

* Understand Microsoft Azure, ideally their Platform as a Service offerings (App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Search, Azure Key Vault etc.), as well as Azure DevOps

* Use Terraform templates and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python.

* Use Test-Driven Development and associated technologies such as NUnit, XUnit

* Use their extensive cloud experience to serve as a DevOps and Platform evangelist who educates development teams and other key stakeholders.

* Serve as a coach and mentor to team colleagues and act as an internal consultant and advisor for other technical teams with relation to leveraging automation technologies.

* Comfortable working in a highly visible and business-facing role where you need to break down complex problems, facilitate capturing requirements and provide creative solutions suitable to the stakeholder's problem statement.

* Demonstrate a passion for cloud engineering and eager to help shape an agile-minded cloud platform team ready for growth.

Deliverables:

* Terraform provisioning templates that are supportable / maintainable.

* Building of the Azure Sandbox / Landing zones.

* Applying NSG / ASG and associated security.

* Providing and E2E solution for automating the provisioning of code, config, data.

* Proving documentation to cover the above.

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