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Senior/Lead DevOps

Layer7Leeds, Yorkshire🇬🇧United Kingdom

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeTemporary/Casual
Work modeOn Site
LocationLeeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
DockerDNSGrafanaHelmPrometheusTerraformVaultAzureKubernetesCI/CDAzure DevOps

Job description

Contract Role

Hybrid - Can be on site at either Leeds or Newcastle

Rates between £450 to £540 pd Inside IR25

Valid SC

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer to support the deployment of SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure, with a particular focus on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Infrastructure-as-Code, networking, security, and CI/CD automation.

The successful candidate will work closely with the HCS team, SAS specialists, cloud/platform engineers, security teams, and other technical stakeholders to establish the Azure infrastructure and deployment capability required for the Proof of Concept (POC).

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the deployment and configuration of SAS Viya onto Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), working collaboratively with the HCS team.
  • Design, build, and configure the Azure Landing Zone resources required to support the POC and SAS Viya workloads.
  • Develop reusable and maintainable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform to automate Azure infrastructure provisioning.
  • Configure Azure networking and connectivity, including VNets, subnets, NSGs, routing, DNS, Private Endpoints/Private Link, and associated security controls.
  • Deploy, configure, and manage Kubernetes resources within AKS, including namespaces, deployments, services, storage, ingress controllers, certificates, secrets, and configuration.
  • 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.
  • Work with architecture, security, platform, and application teams to ensure solutions align with established cloud standards and security requirements.
  • Produce technical documentation, deployment procedures, configuration guidance, and operational handover documentation.
  • Provide technical leadership and support to other DevOps/platform engineers, driving DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.

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.
  • Good understanding of containerisation technologies, particularly Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience working within secure enterprise or government cloud environments.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, security, and deployment pipelines.

Highly Desirable

  • Previous experience deploying or supporting SAS Viya, particularly SAS Viya 4 on Kubernetes.
  • Experience deploying SAS Viya on Azure/AKS.
  • Experience with Helm, Kustomize, GitOps, or similar Kubernetes deployment/configuration approaches.
  • Experience implementing monitoring and logging using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Prometheus, or Grafana.
  • Experience working with private or restricted AKS architectures and enterprise landing zones.
  • Understanding of Azure governance, including Azure Policy, tagging, resource management, and security controls.
  • Previous experience delivering cloud solutions within UK Government, DWP, or similarly regulated environments.

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