Azure DevOps Engineer (Azure, Python, CI/CD)

Azure DevOps Engineer - Sheffield - Contract (Inside IR35)

Our technology team builds innovative digital solutions rapidly and at scale to deliver the next generation of services for our customers around the world.

We have an entrepreneurial mindset. Our people work together, creating an agile, collaborative, and innovative culture. You'll learn and expand your skills, plus we will support you every step of the way as you grow your career.

What you will be doing:

As an Enterprise Cloud Engineer you will join the Cybersecurity Product Sustained Engineering team, with the prime responsibility of looking after the Cyber Forensics Cloud Lab hosted on the Azure platform. The wider team manages a large scale Splunk installation on AWS IaaS-hosted services, as well as inter-cloud ingestion pipelines. The role requires an experienced systems engineer with strong technical leadership and collaboration skills. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in cloud platform management, infrastructure delivery pipelines (eg Azure, AWS, GCP, Scripting in Bash, PowerShell, Python, Terraform, etc.).

In this role you will:

• Act as a Technical SME, designing and developing innovative automated solutions to complex problems utilising the cloud environments.
• Design and support custom-built applications within Azure environment, ensuring secure, reliable and high-performing deployments.
• Build and manage Azure Infrastructure, including Virtual Machines, VM images, Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, private endpoints and Azure Storage.
• Develop and deploy Python functions within an Azure Functions App.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) such as ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform.
• Support CI/CD practices through deployment automation and version-controlled infrastructure in Azure DevOps.
• Integrate monitoring, logging and diagnostics for custom applications using Azure Monitor, Application Insights and Log Analytics.
• Integrate with AI-related Azure services such as OpenAI and contribute to integrations strategies involving LLMs.
• Ensure that custom-built applications are built and maintained inline with standards, governance and controls, ensuring compliance with SLDC & DEPL controls, AI Governance and legal & regulatory requirements.
• Support and extend an existing architecture in close partnership with the principal architect and core development team.
• Produce well-documented, maintainable infrastructure configurations and effectively communicate implementation details with engineers and stakeholders.
• Work within evolving technical landscape and contribute to the refinement and evolution of architecture and infrastructure decisions.
• Utilise strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate issues, troubleshoot deployment challenges, and propose scalable and secure solutions.
• Promote a "self-critical" and continuous assessment and improvement culture whereby identification of weaknesses in the company's control plane (people, process and technology) are brought to light and addressed in an effective and timely manner.
• Support engagement of Global Businesses and Functions to drive a global up-lift in cyber-security awareness and help to evangelise Cybersecurity efforts and success.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Experience within an enterprise scale organisation including hands-on experience of complex data centre environments, working within a similar role ie DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Security Engineer is mandatory.
• Expert level knowledge of one of more leading Cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud.
• Expert level knowledge and proven experience managing Azure App Services, Azure Virtual Machines, and Azure Storage solutions.
• Hands on experience in one or more programming or Scripting language (eg Python, PowerShell, Bash, Terraform).
• Experience and demonstrated experience of building and maintaining CI/CD Pipelines to support efficient software delivery.

This role is based x3 days a week in Sheffield.

Please apply if you have suitable experience in Azure, Python/Powershell/Bash/Terraform and CI/CD experience for this position

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.