Platform Engineer - Azure DevOps / 6 months contract £545/d inside IR35

NOTE: YOU MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR BPSS

About the Role

We are seeking a Lead Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Developer with deep expertise in Azure and Bicep to help architect, secure, and automate our enterprise Azure platform.

This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role where you will define how Azure is built and governed across the organisation. You will partner closely with platform engineering, application teams, and enterprise architects to deliver modular, secure, and scalable deployment frameworks that enable teams to move fast-safely.

What You’ll Do

Architect & Standardise Azure Deployments

• Design and maintain enterprise-grade Bicep module libraries
• Build and manage private Bicep registries with versioning and documentation
• Define reusable deployment patterns aligned to Azure best practices

Automate End-to-End Delivery

• Integrate Bicep templates into robust Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
• Implement validation, what‐if analysis, and controlled promotions across environments
• Enable self-service infrastructure with built-in governance

Security, Governance & Guardrails as Code

• Implement Azure Policy and Initiative definitions as code
• Enforce compliance, cost control, naming standards, and tagging automatically
• Work with security and architecture teams to embed governance by design

Platform Engineering & Azure Expertise

• Design and deploy enterprise Azure services including:
• Networking: VNETs, peering, Private DNS, routing
• Compute: VMs, Load Balancers, Scale Sets
• Identity: RBAC, Managed Identities, least-privilege access models

Modernisation & Migration

• Transition legacy ARM templates and manual builds into clean, maintainable Bicep
• Improve consistency, reliability, and auditability of Azure environments

What We’re Looking For

Essential Skills & Experience

• Extensive, hands-on experience with Bicep at enterprise scale
• Strong understanding of:
• Loops, conditions, decorators
• Subscription, management group, and tenant‐level deployments
• Deep Azure knowledge across networking, compute, and identity
• Proficiency with Git, Azure CLI, and PowerShell
• Proven ability to debug complex deployment failures and API version issues
• Experience working in regulated or large-scale environments

Desirable

• Experience with Azure Verified Modules (AVM)
• Microsoft certifications:
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Why Join Us?

• Play a key role shaping the Azure platform strategy for a global firm
• Work on complex, enterprise-scale cloud environments
• Influence standards, patterns, and governance- not just implementations
• Collaborate with highly skilled architects and engineering teams
• Competitive compensation and benefits, with flexible working

Ready to Apply?

If you are passionate about Infrastructure as Code, enjoy solving complex platform challenges, and want to build secure, scalable Azure foundations at enterprise scale, we’d love to hear from you.