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.