DevOps Engineer

Summary: The role of DevOps Engineer involves developing IT disaster recovery scripts for critical applications within the public sector. The position requires collaboration with the IT Disaster Recovery Project Team to automate Azure environment creation and ensure effective recovery of applications. The contract is for three months with a possibility of extension, and the role is classified as outside IR35. Candidates must possess Counter Terrorism Clearance to be eligible for this position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Liasing with IT Disaster Recovery Project Team to deliver scripts (Bicep, PowerShell, AZCLI) to automate the creation of Azure environments for remaining in-scope applications.
• Creation of pipelines (Azure DevOps) to enable the automated running of scripts in the building of environments and deploying code to these environments through pipelines.
• Running scripts, including any manual steps, ensuring all dependent environments/applications (APIs, Database connections, permissions, key vaults etc) are correctly connected.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues or errors within DR scripts as required.
• Undertake technical testing and script iteration to ensure environments are built correctly.
• Reviewing the deployed application in the DR site in conjunction with internal team to confirm DR scripts function correctly.
• Completion of individual and concurrent testing of all DR scripts to confirm:
• that the deployed runbook of scripts work as required
• the RTOs for individual and concurrent application recovery.
• Delivery of application script documentation and guidance
• Knowledge transfer with internal developers to ensure thorough knowledge handover throughout contract

Key Skills:

• Extensive Bicep expertise
• Scripting including AZCLI and PowerShell
• Pipeline configuration experience
• Azure deployment and infrastructure Pipeline build
• Experience of building scripts from existing architecture diagrams
• Practical application and management of networking and security settings
• Azure Cloud experience including applications services, DNS, application gateways, SQL database, logic apps, web application Firewall rules
• Experience in GIT
• Troubleshooting using Azure tools eg application insights
• Azure DevOps tools expertise
• Azure DevOps knowledge transfer and stakeholder management expertise.

Salary (Rate): £500 daily

City: Edinburgh

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

DevOps Engineer - Azure - Public Sector - Outside IR35

Day Rate - up to £500 (Outside)

Duration - 3 months with a view to extend

Harvey Nash's Client are hiring a contract DevOps Engineer, you will help in developing IT disaster recovery scripts for a set number of applications for business-critical Chamber IT services.

Assignment will include concurrent testing and troubleshooting for all ITDR scripts to:

• Validate that scripts would recover all in-scope applications effectively
• Confirm RTOs for both individual application recovery and overall recovery of all in-scope applications.

Responsibilities

• Liasing with IT Disaster Recovery Project Team to deliver scripts (Bicep, PowerShell, AZCLI) to automate the creation of Azure environments for remaining in-scope applications.
• Creation of pipelines (Azure DevOps) to enable the automated running of scripts in the building of environments and deploying code to these environments through pipelines.
• Running scripts, including any manual steps, ensuring all dependent environments/applications (APIs, Database connections, permissions, key vaults etc) are correctly connected.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues or errors within DR scripts as required.
• Undertake technical testing and script iteration to ensure environments are built correctly.
• Reviewing the deployed application in the DR site in conjunction with internal team to confirm DR scripts function correctly.
• Completion of individual and concurrent testing of all DR scripts to confirm:
• that the deployed runbook of scripts work as required
• the RTOs for individual and concurrent application recovery.
• Delivery of application script documentation and guidance

• Knowledge transfer with internal developers to ensure thorough knowledge handover throughout contract

Please note that Counter Terrorism Clearance is required for this role, please only apply if eligible.

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