Contract Azure DevOps Engineer
Posted Today by Spectrum IT Recruitment
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
London
Summary: Spectrum IT is seeking a Contract Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer to join an enterprise digital platform that delivers a consumer mobile application across the UK and Europe. The role involves designing and improving Azure infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, and managing production workloads. This position is remote and has an initial duration of 5 months with the potential for extension. The role is classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and provision Azure infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps (YAML), including blue-green and canary deployments
- Operate, scale, and optimize AKS clusters running production workloads
- Manage networking, identity, secrets, and configuration in Azure
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Collaborate with engineering teams to support scalable, cloud-native applications
Key Skills:
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure in production environments
- Strong experience with Terraform
- Solid understanding of CI/CD principles
- Experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub
- Experience running containerized workloads on Kubernetes (AKS preferred)
- Experience with cloud monitoring and logging tools
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
- OUTSIDE IR35 & UK REMOTE WORKING
- London
- Contract
Spectrum IT are partnered with an enterprise digital platform that delivers a widely used, real-world consumer mobile application across UK and Europe. Our client are now entering a key delivery phase and need an experienced Contract Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer to help deliver new features and enhancements within a time-critical product roadmap. You'll be joining a modern engineering function and will be hands on with Azure, Terraform, AKS and Azure DevOps.
This role has been deemed OUTSIDE IR35 and will be a UK based remote working role. This contract will have an initial 5 month duration with potential to extend.
The Role
As a key member of the platform team, you'll design, run, and continuously improve the modern Azure-native environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and provision Azure infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps (YAML). This will include blue-green and canary deployments
- Operate, scale, and optimize AKS clusters running production workloads
- Manage networking, identity, secrets, and configuration in Azure
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Collaborate with engineering teams to support scalable, cloud-native applications
Required Skills & Experience
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure in production environments
- Strong experience with Terraform
- Solid understanding of CI/CD principles
- Experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub
- Experience running containerized workloads on Kubernetes (AKS preferred)
- Experience with cloud monitoring and logging tools
For more information and to state your interest, please apply with an updated CV. Candidates for this role must be based in the UK.
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.