DevOps Engineer

Project overview

Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer - Azure/AKS/GitHub Actions

£525/day | Outside IR35 | Initial contract to 18 December 2026 | ASAP start

Remote following an initial week onsite in Watford. Further travel optional.

We're looking for a hands-on DevOps/SRE Engineer to improve application deployment automation and production reliability for an Azure-based microservices platform.

You'll join an existing engineering team, taking ownership of CI/CD workflows for containerised applications running on AKS, alongside observability, troubleshooting and platform resilience.

What you'll be doing:

What we're looking for:

Experience with .NET microservices, PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Azure Service Bus, Key Vault, Kafka or Redpanda would be particularly useful.

• Designing reusable GitHub Actions workflows covering application builds, automated tests, security scanning and deployment into AKS.
• Automating releases through Dev, Test, UAT and Production, with controlled approvals, environment configuration and reliable rollback.
• Deploying and operating containerised microservices using Docker, ACR and Helm.
• Improving monitoring, logs, traces and alerting to identify customer-impacting issues.
• Strengthening availability, scaling and recovery across production workloads.
• Developing reusable infrastructure modules and managing Azure infrastructure through code.
• Troubleshooting application deployments, Kubernetes workloads, networking and service integrations.
• Strong commercial experience personally designing and operating production application CI/CD pipelines into AKS.
• Hands-on GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes and Helm experience.
• Strong Azure engineering and networking skills, including private endpoints, DNS, VNets and managed identities.
• Bicep experience, particularly reusable infrastructure modules; strong Terraform experience is also relevant.
• Production observability and incident troubleshooting experience using Datadog, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus/Grafana or similar.
• Practical understanding of safe releases, rollback, high availability and resilience.
• Ability to explain your own engineering decisions and give specific production examples.

Project details

Please apply with a CV highlighting the application pipelines, AKS deployments and production reliability improvements you have personally delivered.

• £525/day, outside IR35.
• Initial engagement until 18 December 2026, with potential extension.
• Immediate start preferred.
• First week onsite in Watford; remote thereafter, with further travel optional.
• One approximately 90-minute virtual interview combining technical discussion and a practical architecture exercise.
• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 2 months initial
• Location: Watford, Hertfordshire, UK, GB
• Rate: 66-66 EUR/h