DevOps Engineer - Edinburgh

DevOps Engineer - IT Disaster Recovery Edinburgh (1 day per week on site) £500 per day - Outside IR35 - 3 month contract

Maximum 60 days to be worked across this contract duration based on rate shared at top of document.

We're supporting our main public sector client on a mid-flight IT Disaster Recovery programme and are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to help deliver and validate DR capability for a set of business-critical Chamber IT services.

This role is hands-on and delivery-focused, centred on building, testing and refining Azure-based DR scripts and ensuring recovery objectives are met both at application and estate level. The role You'll work closely with the internal ITDR project team to complete and test Disaster Recovery scripts, ensuring environments can be rebuilt reliably, repeatably and within agreed RTOs.

Key responsibilities include

Developing and finalising IT Disaster Recovery scripts to recover in-scope Azure applications

Running individual and concurrent DR tests to validate

Successful application recovery

RTOs for single applications and full estate recovery

Troubleshooting and iterating scripts where issues are identified

Building Azure DevOps pipelines to automate environment creation and deployment

Ensuring all dependent components (APIs, databases, networking, security, key vaults, permissions) are correctly configured

Reviewing deployed DR environments with internal teams to confirm scripts function as expected

Producing clear script documentation and runbooks

Carrying out knowledge transfer with internal developers throughout the contract

Technical environment / deliverables

Bicep, PowerShell & AZ CLI scripts to automate Azure environment creation

Azure DevOps pipelines for script execution and deployments

Concurrent and individual DR testing with confirmed RTOs

Script documentation and guidance for BAU teams

Essential skills & experience Strong experience as a DevOps Engineer, specifically in an IT Disaster Recovery or resilience context, including:

Extensive Bicep expertise

Strong Azure scripting (PowerShell & AZ CLI)

Azure DevOps pipelines and tooling

Azure infrastructure and deployment pipeline builds

Building scripts from existing architecture diagrams

Networking and security configuration (permissions, gateways, WAF, DNS, Key Vaults)

Azure services including

App Services

Application Gateways

SQL Databases

Logic Apps

Web Application Firewall rules

Git source control

Troubleshooting using Azure tooling (e.g. Application Insights)

Clear communication and stakeholder engagement

Experience with knowledge transfer / handover

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.