Azure DevOps Engineer - SC Clearance
Posted 1 day ago by Randstad Technologies
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
London, UK
Summary: The Senior Azure DevOps Engineer role involves architecting, delivering, and operating complex cloud and digital platforms for public sector transformation. The position requires expertise in Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, and agile delivery pipelines, focusing on reliability, scalability, security, and compliance. The engineer will be hands-on, responsible for operational delivery, and must possess current SC clearance. This contract role is classified as inside IR35 and is remote-based in the UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver, operate, and support services across Azure, hybrid, and legacy environments.
- Implement industrialised DevOps delivery models, including CI/CD and automation.
- Interpret client contracts and SLAs into operational and technical delivery requirements.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and remediate SLA breaches with technical and process-based mitigations.
- Create, review, and maintain operational runbooks, architecture diagrams, and service documentation.
- Communicate technical issues, risks, and solutions to senior stakeholders and clients.
- Apply ITIL processes within modern Azure DevOps environments.
- Collaborate across engineering, platform, security, and operations teams.
- Manage cost and chargeback models within Azure-based services.
- Align engineering work with cloud and digital transformation strategies.
- Make sound engineering decisions with strong technical and business acumen.
- Drive hands-on fault resolution and service improvements.
- Operate effectively under production pressure and incident scenarios.
- Work with complex systems, cross-platform dependencies, and evolving architectures.
- Champion continuous improvement, automation, and modern Azure DevOps practices.
- Maintain valid, fully transferrable SC clearance and reside in the UK for the last 5 years.
Key Skills:
- Hands-on experience with Azure, hybrid, and legacy environments.
- Understanding of industrialised DevOps delivery models.
- Ability to interpret client contracts and SLAs.
- Experience in troubleshooting and remediating SLA breaches.
- Skills in creating and maintaining operational documentation.
- Strong communication skills for technical issues and solutions.
- Knowledge of ITIL processes.
- Collaboration across various teams.
- Awareness of cost management in Azure services.
- Experience aligning engineering with transformation strategies.
- Technical and business acumen.
- Problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Experience with complex systems and evolving architectures.
- Team player with a focus on shared technical ownership.
- Current SC clearance.
Salary (Rate): £500.00 Daily
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
- Role : Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - SC Clearance
- Location : UK (Remote)
- Type : Contract (Inside IR35)
Job Description Summary
A highly experienced Azure DevOps professional responsible for architecting, delivering, and operating complex cloud and digital platforms that support large-scale public sector transformation. Expert in designing and implementing agile delivery pipelines across infrastructure, application, and platform services, with a strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, security, and compliance. Brings deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), and modern automation practices to enable seamless, citizen-focused digital services.
Essential requirements
The Azure DevOps Operations Delivery Lead will be a highly hands-on engineer with strong experience in cloud, application, and infrastructure operations, and should possess the following experience and characteristics:
- Hands-on experience delivering, operating, and supporting services across Azure, hybrid, and Legacy environments
- Strong practical understanding of industrialised DevOps delivery models, including CI/CD, automation, and repeatable deployment patterns
- Ability to interpret client contracts and SLAs and translate them into operational and technical delivery requirements
- Proven ability to identify, troubleshoot, and remediate SLA breaches, including implementing technical and process-based mitigations
- Hands-on responsibility for creating, reviewing, and maintaining operational runbooks, architecture diagrams, and service documentation
- Demonstrated experience communicating technical issues, risks, and solutions to senior stakeholders and clients
- Practical knowledge of ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change, Release) applied within modern Azure DevOps environments
- Ability to work directly across engineering, platform, security, and operations teams to present a single operational view of service
- Strong awareness of cost management and chargeback models within Azure-based services
- Hands-on experience aligning engineering work with cloud and digital transformation strategies
- Strong technical and business acumen with the ability to make sound engineering decisions
- Clear, confident communicator with strong collaboration and negotiation skills
- Highly self-motivated, proactive, and comfortable owning technical outcomes end-to-end
- Logical and structured problem-solver with a strong attention to detail
- Ability to think creatively and pragmatically to drive hands-on fault resolution and service improvements
- Proven ability to operate effectively under production pressure and incident scenarios
- Comfortable working with complex systems, cross-platform dependencies, and evolving architectures
- A collaborative team player who actively contributes to shared technical ownership
- Embraces and champions continuous improvement, automation, and modern Azure DevOps practices
- must have currently valid, fully transferrable SC clearance and resided in the UK for the last 5 years.
Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.