Azure Platform Engineer (Contract) — Terraform, AKS & Docker

BigHand; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

BigHand is seeking a Platform/DevOps Engineer on a 6-month hybrid engagement in London to lead Azure migrations and landing zones for a multi-region environment. The role emphasizes Terraform, PowerShell, AKS and Docker, with DevSecOps across CI/CD pipelines and robust observability tooling.

The contractor will design an Azure landing zone, migrate services, automate processes, and deliver runbooks and security documentation for a smooth handover to BigHand’s internal teams.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver an Azure landing zone and migrate on-premises services to multi-region Azure (PaaS/IaaS) including containerised workloads on AKS and Docker.
• Embed security controls across build/release pipelines with documented standards for handover.
• Extend and harden Terraform/PowerShell modules; automate build, release and operations processes.
• Deliver monitoring dashboards and usage/uptime reporting for migrated platforms.
• Produce runbooks and security docs; conduct knowledge-transfer sessions for internal teams.

Skills

Azure migrations

Terraform

PowerShell

AKS

Docker

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Monitoring & observability

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

AKS

Docker

Job description

BigHand is seeking a Platform/DevOps Engineer on a 6-month hybrid engagement in London to lead Azure migrations and landing zones for a multi-region environment. The role emphasizes Terraform, PowerShell, AKS and Docker, with DevSecOps across CI/CD pipelines and robust observability tooling.

The contractor will design an Azure landing zone, migrate services, automate processes, and deliver runbooks and security documentation for a smooth handover to BigHand’s internal teams.