DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer - Azure - Public Sector - Outside IR35

Day Rate - up to £500 (Outside)

Duration - 3 months with a view to extend

Harvey Nash's Client are hiring a contract DevOps Engineer, you will help in developing IT disaster recovery scripts for a set number of applications for business-critical Chamber IT services.

Assignment will include concurrent testing and troubleshooting for all ITDR scripts to:

Validate that scripts would recover all in-scope applications effectively

Confirm RTOs for both individual application recovery and overall recovery of all in-scope applications.

Responsibilities

Liasing with IT Disaster Recovery Project Team to deliver scripts (Bicep, PowerShell, AZCLI) to automate the creation of Azure environments for remaining in-scope applications.

Creation of pipelines (Azure DevOps) to enable the automated running of scripts in the building of environments and deploying code to these environments through pipelines.

Running scripts, including any manual steps, ensuring all dependent environments/applications (APIs, Database connections, permissions, key vaults etc) are correctly connected.

Ability to troubleshoot issues or errors within DR scripts as required.

Undertake technical testing and script iteration to ensure environments are built correctly.

Reviewing the deployed application in the DR site in conjunction with internal team to confirm DR scripts function correctly.

Completion of individual and concurrent testing of all DR scripts to confirm

that the deployed runbook of scripts work as required

the RTOs for individual and concurrent application recovery.

Delivery of application script documentation and guidance

Knowledge transfer with internal developers to ensure thorough knowledge handover throughout contract

Skills & Experience Required

Extensive Bicep expertise

Scripting including AZCLI and PowerShell

Pipeline configuration experience

Azure deployment and infrastructure Pipeline build

Experience of building scripts from existing architecture diagrams

Practical application and management of networking and security settings

Azure Cloud experience including applications services, DNS, application gateways, SQL database, logic apps, web application firewall rules

Experience in GIT

Troubleshooting using Azure tools e.g. application insights

Azure DevOps tools expertise

Azure DevOps knowledge transfer and stakeholder management expertise.

Please note that Counter Terrorism Clearance is required for this role, please only apply if eligible.

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