DevOps Consultant

DevOps Consultant

Rate: Up to ££350 a day inside IR35

Clearance: Active SC Clearance required

Location: Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds or Blackpool

Travel: Candidates must be able to travel to a DWP hub when required. On-site availability should be confirmed.

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Consultant to support the Azure Data Platform within Health and Disability.

You will develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains, with a strong focus on automation, cloud infrastructure, resilience and continuous improvement. You will work closely with product teams to deliver secure, scalable and maintainable Azure solutions.

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong Azure Cloud experience, particularly Azure Data services. • Hands-on Terraform / Infrastructure as Code experience. • GitLab CI/CD and DevOps tooling. • Monitoring experience with Prometheus/Grafana. • Unix/Linux/Windows and scripting experience. • Experience working in Agile DevOps / Platform Engineering environments. • Experience supporting and developing engineers through mentoring and knowledge sharing. • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to take ownership of loosely defined technical work. • Experience delivering PoCs, proof of capabilities and technical improvements. • Active SC Clearance.

Desirable

• Azure Data Factory • Azure Synapse Analytics • Azure Data Lake • Databricks • Kafka / Kafka Connect

Interview

The interview will include a problem-solving exercise assessing technical depth, engineering…