Azure DevOps Engineer

Azure DevOps Engineer

Roughly 1 day a month in London
Rate: £500/day Inside IR35
Duration: Until 31st March 2027
Sector: NHS programme

Overview

We're looking for an Azure DevOps Engineer to join a major NHS programme. You'll build and run the pipelines and cloud infrastructure behind services used across the health system. This role needs someone who has delivered in NHS or government environments before and understands the standards and assurance that come with them.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps
Provision and manage Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Bicep)
Automate builds, testing and releases across multiple environments
Monitor platform health, performance and cost
Build security and compliance controls into pipelines and infrastructure
Work closely with developers, testers and architects to keep releases smooth
Support incident response and troubleshoot issues in live services
Document processes, environments and runbooks

Key Requirements

Proven experience on NHS or UK government programmes
Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps pipelines and Repos
Solid Azure experience covering compute, networking, storage and identity
Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Bicep
Scripting in PowerShell, Bash or Python
Experience with containers (Docker) and orchestration (AKS or Kubernetes)
A good understanding of security best practice in cloud environments

Desirable

Experience with NHS Digital or NHS England platforms and standards
Knowledge of GDS Service Standard and government assurance processes
Monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics or Grafana
Azure certifications (AZ-400, AZ-104)

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