Azure Platform DevOps Consultant — 6-Month Contract (Hybrid)

BigHand Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

BigHand Limited in London seeks a Platform/DevOps Engineer for a 6-month hybrid contract to migrate on-premises services to a multi-region Azure platform, including containerised workloads with AKS and Docker. The engagement covers DevSecOps, automation, and observability tooling to support a scalable cloud environment.

You will work against a defined statement of work with milestones, and BigHand will provide inputs to define requirements and review deliverables.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering Azure migrations and landing zones for clients.
• Hands-on expertise with Terraform, PowerShell, AKS, and Docker.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps and CI/CD security practices.
• Experience designing monitoring/observability for production cloud platforms.
• Able to scope, plan and deliver work independently against defined outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver an Azure landing zone and migrate on-premises services to multi-region Azure (PaaS/IaaS).
• Embed security controls across build and release pipelines with documented standards.
• Extend and harden Terraform/PowerShell templates; provide reusable automation.
• Deliver monitoring dashboards and uptime reporting for migrated platforms.
• Produce runbooks, incident guides and security documentation for handover.
• Provide a written assessment of further tooling and cloud cost improvements.

Skills

Terraform

PowerShell

AKS

Docker

Azure

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Monitoring

Observability

Cloud migrations

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

AKS

Docker

Job description

BigHand Limited in London seeks a Platform/DevOps Engineer for a 6-month hybrid contract to migrate on-premises services to a multi-region Azure platform, including containerised workloads with AKS and Docker. The engagement covers DevSecOps, automation, and observability tooling to support a scalable cloud environment.

You will work against a defined statement of work with milestones, and BigHand will provide inputs to define requirements and review deliverables.