Contract Azure DevOps Engineer

Spectrum IT are partnered with an enterprise digital platform that delivers a widely used, real-world consumer mobile application across UK and Europe. Our client are now entering a key delivery phase and need an experienced Contract Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer to help deliver new features and enhancements within a time-critical product roadmap. You'll be joining a modern engineering function and will be hands on with Azure, Terraform, AKS and Azure DevOps.

This role has been deemed OUTSIDE IR35 and will be a UK based remote working role. This contract will have an initial 5 month duration with potential to extend.

The Role As a key member of the platform team, you'll design, run, and continuously improve the modern Azure-native environment.

Key Responsibilities

Design and provision Azure infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps (YAML). This will include blue-green and canary deployments

Operate, scale, and optimize AKS clusters running production workloads

Manage networking, identity, secrets, and configuration in Azure

Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency

Collaborate with engineering teams to support scalable, cloud-native applications

Required Skills & Experience

Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure in production environments

Strong experience with Terraform

Solid understanding of CI/CD principles

Experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub

Experience running containerized workloads on Kubernetes (AKS preferred)

Experience with cloud monitoring and logging tools

For more information and to state your interest, please apply with an updated CV. Candidates for this role must be based in the UK.

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.