Summary: The DevOps Engineer role in Wokingham, UK, is focused on supporting critical delivery programs within a dynamic technology environment. The position emphasizes the deployment of applications and infrastructure on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, requiring collaboration with development and operations teams to implement DevOps best practices. Key responsibilities include automating cloud provisioning, improving CI/CD processes, and ensuring secure and reliable cloud delivery. The role is office-based and requires a commitment of five days per week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and applications
- Automate cloud provisioning using Terraform and/or ARM templates
- Manage source control, branching and release workflows using Git and Azure DevOps
- Implement secure secrets management through Azure Key Vault or equivalent tools
- Monitor system health, performance and availability and configure automated alerts
- Collaborate with developers to integrate DevOps practices into the SDLC
- Implement automated security and compliance controls including vulnerability scanning
- Optimise Azure environments for stability, cost control and performance
- Diagnose and resolve issues affecting pipelines, deployments and cloud services
- Produce and maintain clear, high-quality documentation across platforms and processes
Key Skills:
- Experience working within DevOps or cloud delivery environments
- Proven ability to work with Microsoft Azure cloud services
- Strong practical experience in CI/CD automation and Azure DevOps
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and ARM templates
- Strong scripting capability using Bash and PowerShell
- Understanding of foundational networking concepts including VNETs, subnets and NSGs
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor
- Awareness of DevOps security principles, including secrets management and vulnerability scanning
- Skilled in using Visual Studio Code for development, debugging and configuration
- Familiar with linting, formatting, Git integration and YAML pipeline editing
- Experience with Dev Containers or remote development environments
Salary (Rate): £425 daily
City: Wokingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
DevOps Engineer
Location: Wokingham, UK (Office-based, 5 days per week)
Contract Duration: 6 months
Day Rate: £425 (Inside IR35)
Overview
We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support critical delivery programmes within a rapidly evolving technology environment. The role is key to enabling fast, secure and reliable deployment of applications and infrastructure on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. You will work closely with development and operations teams to drive DevOps best practice, automate cloud provisioning, improve CI/CD processes, and ensure resilient, secure and cost-optimised cloud delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and applications
- Automate cloud provisioning using Terraform and/or ARM templates
- Manage source control, branching and release workflows using Git and Azure DevOps
- Implement secure secrets management through Azure Key Vault or equivalent tools
- Monitor system health, performance and availability and configure automated alerts
- Collaborate with developers to integrate DevOps practices into the SDLC
- Implement automated security and compliance controls including vulnerability scanning
- Optimise Azure environments for stability, cost control and performance
- Diagnose and resolve issues affecting pipelines, deployments and cloud services
- Produce and maintain clear, high-quality documentation across platforms and processes.
Candidate Profile
Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience
- Experience working within DevOps or cloud delivery environments
- Proven ability to work with Microsoft Azure cloud services
- Strong practical experience in CI/CD automation and Azure DevOps
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and ARM templates
- Strong scripting capability using Bash and PowerShell
- Understanding of foundational networking concepts including VNETs, subnets and NSGs
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor
- Awareness of DevOps security principles, including secrets management and vulnerability scanning
- VS Code Proficiency
- Skilled in using Visual Studio Code for development, debugging and configuration
- Familiar with linting, formatting, Git integration and YAML pipeline editing
- Experience with Dev Containers or remote development environments
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Hands-on Azure Portal experience
- Broader knowledge of Azure DevOps components including Boards, Repos and Artifacts
- Strong Git proficiency and understanding of version control best practice
- Experience building CI/CD architectures for complex or enterprise systems
- Background supporting cloud-native or large-scale DevOps environments
