Devops Engineer - Perm (FTC) - Hybrid

London
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Devops Engineer - Perm (FTC) - Hybrid

Role - Devops Engineer

Industry - Automotive

Type - Fixed term contract (3 - 6 months)

Rate - £70,000 - £75,000 per annum, pro rata

Location - Hybrid, 50% of the month in the office (London, Victoria)

Spec -

Purpose

Hands-on DevOps Engineer with strong experience in Azure infrastructure and Terraform to enhance, automate, and support a cloud-native data platform. This hybrid role will be responsible for advancing our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy for Azure Synapse, Blob Storage, and surrounding services while enabling secure, monitored, and scalable environments.
You will work alongside platform engineers, data engineers, and application teams to streamline infrastructure provisioning, enhance DevOps pipelines, and support deployment processes for integration components Skills

Terraform (Azure Provider) - solid hands-on experience with modules, state handling, and environment design.
Azure Synapse Analytics - workspace setup, pipeline orchestration, data movement components.
Azure Blob Storage - configuration, access control, and integration.
Azure AD / Entra ID - external user setup, access roles, security groups.
Comfortable with cloud-hosted app deployment integrations (e.g., C#, Blazor).
Good familiarity with SQL Server environments.
DevOps & Automation
Experience with CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
Familiarity with YAML pipelines and automated release workflows.
Exposure to monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, or third-party)
Experience with secure data movement and scheduled refresh automation (e.g., via Synapse Triggers, Azure Automation).
Awareness of cost-optimization, telemetry, and observability best practices in Azure environments.

Preferred Qualifications

Microsoft Certifications: AZ-400 (DevOps), AZ-104 (Admin), or equivalent.

Main Duties

Infrastructure & Platform Automation
Extend and improve Terraform-based infrastructure automation for:
Azure Synapse: Workspaces, SQL Pools, Pipelines, Linked Services, Triggers.
Azure Blob Storage: Containers, lifecycle rules, access policies, secure access patterns.
Azure Web Apps and additional cloud services where needed.
Maintain and enhance IaC for RBAC, Entra ID (Azure AD), and secure external access.
Support flexible deployments and environment replication across dev/test/prod.
DevOps & Deployment Automation
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for infrastructure and application deployment.
Ensure consistent provisioning of environments using pipelines and IaC.
Support integration of cloud-hosted apps (e.g., C# / Blazor front-ends) into provisioned infrastructure.
Coordinate deployment of pre-scripted T-SQL objects .
Identity & Security Configuration
Manage secure access for internal and external users using Azure AD / Entra ID B2B.
Automate setup of roles, groups, linked services, and data access for services like SQL DB, Blob Storage, SFTP.

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