DevOps Engineer

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd is seeking a Senior Azure DevOps/Platform Engineer for an initial 3-month contract to support a major Azure hub-and-spoke migration.

You will work hands-on across AKS, Terraform, Helm and Azure DevOps, migrating live services, standardising pipelines, building Terraform modules and Helm charts, and ensuring secure, scalable deployments.

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing services onto AKS and into new Azure subscriptions
• Move services and pipelines into a new Azure DevOps project and standardise deployment processes
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules across environments/regions
• Author Helm charts for microservices and support Kubernetes deployments, ingress, scaling and troubleshooting
• Support security hardening and vulnerability scanning
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and support broader platform engineering/BAU activity
• Produce runbooks and handover documentation for SRE teams
• Optimise Azure services including Cosmos DB and Redis for performance and cost

Skills

Azure DevOps

AKS

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Azure subscriptions

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Job description

We’re working with a leading organisation undertaking a major Azure platform migration and are looking for a Senior Azure DevOps / Platform Engineer to join on an initial 3-month contract.

The client has recently built a new Azure hub-and-spoke platform centred around AKS, with infrastructure delivered through Terraform and Helm and CI/CD managed through Azure DevOps. The immediate focus is migrating existing services onto the new platform while modernising and decommissioning legacy infrastructure.

The Role

You’ll be hands-on across the Azure estate, helping migrate live services into AKS, rework their deployment pipelines and extend the underlying Infrastructure as Code.

Key areas will include:

• Migrating existing services onto AKS and into new Azure subscriptions
• Moving services and pipelines into a new Azure DevOps project and standardising deployment processes
• Developing and maintaining Terraform modules across multiple environments/regions
• Authoring and maintaining Helm charts for microservices
• Supporting Kubernetes deployments, ingress, workload identity, scaling and troubleshooting
• Working on Azure Front Door, WAF, Firewall, DNS and routing
• Helping migrate internal traffic away from Cloudflare onto Azure-native services
• Safely decommissioning legacy infrastructure and managing dependencies/state
• Optimising Azure services including Cosmos DB and Redis for performance and cost
• Supporting security hardening and vulnerability scanning
• Maintaining healthy CI/CD pipelines and supporting wider platform engineering/BAU activity
• Producing clear runbooks and handover documentation for SRE teams
• Azure - particularly AKS and hub-and-spoke landing zones
• Terraform - modules, remote Azure state and multi-environment deployments
• Kubernetes & Helm - hands-on chart development, deployments, ingress, scaling and troubleshooting
• Azure networking/security - Front Door, WAF, Firewall, DNS, Private Endpoints, RBAC and identity
• Azure DevOps - strong pipeline experience and automated security/testing
• Experience migrating live services/platforms between subscriptions, clusters or environments
• Azure cost and performance optimisation, particularly Cosmos DB and Redis
• Git/PR-based development and strong Infrastructure as Code practices
• Ability to work independently in a senior contract capacity
• Azure Monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics, KQL or Grafana
• Service Bus, App Configuration or Entra ID
• Security tooling such as Trivy, Checkov, Snyk or SonarCloud
• CKA/CKAD, AZ-400, Azure Solutions Architect or Terraform certification