Azure DevOps Engineer

Azure DevOps Engineer | Azure, Terraform, CI/CD | Bank-Grade Cloud Platform Build • £600–£650 p/d (Outside IR35) • 5-month initial contract (extensions likely) • Hybrid: London (2 days/week on-site) • Option for the role to be made Perm if preferred The Role Join a newly formed Cloud Platform Engineering team building a greenfield Azure platform for a regulated banking venture. You’ll join as a senior individual contributor, taking ownership of the most complex, high-risk platform engineering work across a large Azure estate in a regulated financial services environment. This is not a people management role — you’ll lead through your code, your technical judgement, and your ability to turn ambitious platform designs into secure, scalable, production-ready infrastructure. You will: • Own and deliver the highest-risk, most complex or ambiguous platform work • Build and enhance Azure landing zones and internal platform services • Deliver infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, self-service tooling and observability end-to-end • Challenge design assumptions with a “show me the code” approach • Pair with engineers to unblock delivery and lift team-wide engineering standards Non-Negotiables: • 8+ years infrastructure engineering in Azure environments • Terraform expertise at scale: modules, composition, patterns and anti-patterns • Strong Azure networking, security and governance knowledge • Experience in regulated environments (FS, healthcare, government, etc.) • CI/CD and automation experience (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, scripting) • Ability to troubleshoot complex infra, identity, networking and security issues • TDD/automated testing for infrastructure changes • Experience mentoring and guiding other engineers What You’ll Work With: • Terraform: modular IaC, policy integration, testing and validation • Azure Core: networking, security, identity, governance, landing zones • Azure PaaS: App Service, Functions, container platforms (ACA/AKS) • CI/CD: GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps with full automation • Observability: logging, metrics, dashboards and alerting • Incident Response: diagnosing and resolving complex platform issues Why Join: • Shape a secure, scalable Azure platform in a regulated financial services environment • Own complex landing zones and platform capabilities that have organisation-wide impact • Influence engineering standards, patterns and delivery practices • Work in a collaborative, Kanban-driven team focused on high-quality delivery • Lead through hands-on engineering, pairing and code reviews — not hierarchy If you enjoy solving deep technical problems, shipping high-quality infrastructure, and elevating engineering teams through hands-on expertise, this role will suit you perfectly. Azure DevOps Engineer | Azure, Terraform, CI/CD | Bank-Grade Cloud Platform Build