Lead Azure DevOps Engineer

Location: UK Remote
Type: Inside IR35 contract
Duration: 6 months (Rolling)
Start Date: ASAP
Clearance: Active SC required. Non-Home Office SC is accepted if transferable to the end client's sponsorship. Clearance must have been issued within the last 7 years.
Interview Process: 1 Stage technical interview

About the Role
You will join a high-performing Agile delivery team building and supporting secure cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure for a UK public sector programme. The role combines hands-on platform engineering with client-facing leadership, so clear communication and planning experience are central to success.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the technical lead in client-facing discussions, owning planning and communication with the end client
• Design, build and support secure Azure infrastructure across IAM/RBAC, Networking, Key Vault, Storage Accounts, Virtual Machines and Databricks
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Configure and optimise Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, with branching strategies in ADO Repos/Git
• Containerise workloads with Docker and Docker Compose, with vulnerability scanning through Trivy or similar
• Automate and monitor the platform using Bash and/or Python
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform, deployment and infrastructure issues
• Work alongside Architects, Developers, Product Owners and Scrum teams to deliver resilient cloud services

Required Skills (Must Have)

• Active and transferrable SC clearance
• Proven client-facing experience, including planning and communicating with non-technical stakeholders
• Azure platform experience, including VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints and DNS
• Terraform for infrastructure as code
• Azure DevOps Pipelines and Git branching strategies
• Docker and Docker Compose
• Hands-on Trivy experience or similar scanning tools
• Bash and/or Python Scripting
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Azure environments
• Experience in Agile/Scrum delivery teams
• Fluent written and spoken English