Azure DevOps engineer

£450 Inside ir35
Remote - Once a week in your local DWP office
ASAP Start

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the deployment and configuration of SAS Viya onto Azure Kubernetes Service
• Configure Azure networking and connectivity, including VNets, subnets, NSGs, routing, DNS, Private Endpoints/Private Link , and associated security controls.
• Implement secure management of application secrets and certificates, ideally integrating with Azure Key Vault .
• Establish and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application/platform deployments using tooling such as Azure DevOps or equivalent.
• Implement appropriate RBAC, identity, access controls, and security policies across Azure and Kubernetes environments.
• Troubleshoot deployment, networking, Kubernetes, security, and infrastructure issues across the end-to-end SAS Viya platform.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience designing, deploying, and administering Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) .
• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes , including deployments, services, ingress, secrets, certificates, persistent storage, RBAC, and troubleshooting.
• Strong practical experience with Terraform , including modular and reusable IaC patterns.
• Strong understanding of Azure networking , including VNets, subnets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, Private Link, DNS, and routing.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines , preferably using Azure DevOps Pipelines .
• Experience with Azure identity and security services, including Microsoft Entra ID, Managed Identities, RBAC, and Azure Key Vault .