DevOps Engineer at djr, Watford, 3 Months, £525 per day

Azure DevOps/Platform Engineer - Contract£525 per day | Outside IR35 | Watford
Initial contract until 18 December 2026, with a view to extending into the new year
Build the platform. Own the infrastructure. Help take it into production.

We're looking for an experienced Azure DevOps/Platform Engineer to take hands-on ownership of a production Azure platform, covering infrastructure, networking, security, automation and deployment pipelines.
This is an opportunity to shape how the platform is built and operated. You'll work in a highly automated environment where infrastructure, platform services and application releases are delivered entirely through code.

What you'll be doing

• Building and operating secure, resilient Azure infrastructure, with AKS at its core.
• Developing reusable Bicep modules and managing infrastructure through code.
• Creating automated build, test and release pipelines using GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Actions.
• Managing environment promotion through Dev, Test, UAT and Production, including infrastructure deployment and drift management.
• Implementing networking, private connectivity, identity, access controls and secrets management.
• Delivering multi-node, multi-zone deployments for high availability.
• Establishing monitoring and application insights to support reliable production operations.

What you'll bring
You'll have experience building and operating a production Azure platform from the ground up, with the confidence to take ownership across infrastructure and delivery.

We're particularly interested in:

• Expert-level Bicep, including reusable infrastructure modules.
• Strong Azure and Kubernetes/AKS experience.
• Proven CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions.
• Azure networking, including VNets, peering, Private Endpoints, DNS, Load Balancers and Application Gateway.
• Cloud security experience covering Azure Policy, RBAC, Managed Identities, Entra ID and Key Vault.
• Experience designing for high availability and supporting production environments.

The platform
The wider stack includes Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Service Bus, Storage Accounts, Azure Monitor and Application Insights, alongside RedPanda/Kafka and Microsoft Orleans. Experience supporting event-driven architectures would be valuable.

Interested? Send your CV to discuss the contract and the platform you'll help deliver.