DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer Contract - Outside IR35! £400.00 per day 6-12 Months+ Hybrid – Leicester (3 days per week on-site) November Start

Overview

My client is undertaking a large-scale Global Ledger (GL) Transformation and is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join the Infrastructure team on a contract basis. This role will focus on building and optimising cloud infrastructure within Microsoft Azure, ensuring automation, scalability, and reliability across key finance and application environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain Azure infrastructure to support the GL Transformation initiative.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to automate environment creation and configuration.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines within Azure DevOps, ensuring efficient build, release and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Application, and Security teams to align DevOps practices with organisational standards.
• Support environment troubleshooting, incident resolution, and root cause analysis.
• Drive continuous improvement and advocate best practices across infrastructure automation and cloud governance.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and observability solutions using Dynatrace.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience in a DevOps or Cloud Engineer role within an enterprise Azure environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with:
• Azure (IaaS, PaaS, networking, identity)
• Terraform (IaC for multi-environment deployments)
• Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts)
• Git (version control and branching strategies)
• Knowledge of security, compliance, and cost optimisation best practices in Azure.
• Experience supporting finance or transformation projects is highly advantageous.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
• Dynatrace - NOT ESSENTIAL BUT DESIRED

DevOps Engineer