DevOps Consultant

Consult; Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Leeds, Lancashire; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

Consult seeks an experienced DevOps Consultant to support the Azure Data Platform within Health and Disability. You will develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains, focusing on automation, cloud infrastructure, resilience and continuous improvement.

Work with product teams to deliver secure, scalable Azure solutions and grow in a hands-on role with Azure data services. The ideal candidate holds active SC clearance, is adept at problem-solving, and is comfortable travelling to DWP hubs and

Qualifications

• Active SC clearance required.
• Experience delivering Azure-based data platform solutions.
• Experience creating CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Mentor engineers and share knowledge.
• Strong problem-solving and ownership of work.

Responsibilities

• Develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains for Azure Data Platform.
• Collaborate with product teams to deliver secure, scalable Azure solutions.
• Lead PoCs and technical improvements.
• Mentor engineers and share knowledge.

Skills

Azure Cloud

Terraform / IaC

GitLab CI/CD

Prometheus / Grafana

Scripting (Unix/Linux/Windows)

Agile DevOps / Platform Eng

Mentoring & knowledge sharing

Problem solving & ownership

PoCs / proofs of concept

Active SC Clearance

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Data Lake

Databricks

Kafka / Kafka Connect

Job description

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 judgement, communication and approach to problem solving. Candidates should be comfortable explaining their decisions, assumptions and technical trade-offs.

Ideal candidate: A proactive, autonomous DevOps engineer with strong Azure Data Platform experience who can take ownership, solve complex problems and drive delivery.