Senior Azure Engineer - Azure Application, Devops & Security Engineer - SC Cleared

Uniting People Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 76,000; Part time

Job summary

Uniting People Ltd is seeking a Senior Azure Engineer to productionise an existing application on Azure App Service, integrate APIM, and establish a secure, scalable Azure platform. The role is hands-on, focused on security, reliability and repeatable deployments within a regulated environment.

You will work on CI/CD improvements, monitoring, and operational runbooks, with SC Clearance and 50% onsite attendance in London (TS).

Qualifications

• Hands-on Azure engineering experience in a regulated environment.
• Experience with APIM, Entra ID and RBAC.
• Proficient in CI/CD and monitoring/observability.
• Security-focused engineering with SC clearance awareness.

Responsibilities

• Configure and integrate Azure API Management with Azure App Service.
• Develop and manage APIM policies, authentication, routing, certificates and error handling.
• Configure Entra ID, Managed Identities and RBAC.
• Implement secure API and application access models.
• Configure App Service settings, networking, DNS and certificates.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Implement infrastructure with Terraform.
• Build and integrate REST APIs using Python.
• Implement logging, monitoring and health checks with Azure Monitor.

Skills

Azure engineering

APIM

Azure App Service

Entra ID

RBAC

CI/CD

Python REST APIs

Logging & monitoring

Terraform

Technical documentation

SC Clearance

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

Job description

Senior Azure Engineer - Azure application, DevOps & security Engineer - SC Cleared Senior Azure Application, DevOps & Security Engineer

Location: London (TS)
Contract: Temporary
Duration: 02 November 2026 - 30 April 2027
Positions: 2
Rate: £385 per day
Clearance: SC Clearance required
Working: 50% onsite

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Azure Application, DevOps & Security Engineer to support a major technology programme within a regulated environment.

This is a hands‑on engineering role, focused on productionising an existing application hosted on Azure App Service and establishing a secure, reliable and repeatable Azure platform.

You will be responsible for integrating Azure API Management (APIM) with App Service, implementing the security and identity model, improving CI/CD, monitoring and operational processes, and providing technical documentation and knowledge transfer.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure and integrate Azure API Management with Azure App Service
• Develop and manage APIM policies, authentication, routing, certificates and error handling
• Configure Entra ID, Managed Identities and RBAC
• Implement secure API and application access models
• Configure App Service settings, networking, DNS and certificates
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
• Implement infrastructure and configuration using Terraform
• Build and integrate REST APIs using Python
• Implement logging, monitoring, health checks and alerting using Azure Monitor/Application Insights
• Troubleshoot production deployment, connectivity, authentication and application issues
• Support repeatable deployment, testing, rollback and recovery processes
• Produce technical documentation, operational runbooks and reusable deployment patterns
• Provide knowledge transfer to internal technology teams

Essential Skills

• Strong hands‑on Azure engineering experience
• Azure API Management (APIM)
• Azure App Service
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Managed Identities & RBAC
• Azure application and API security
• Production CI/CD
• Python & REST APIs
• Networking, DNS and certificates
• Logging, monitoring and operational supportGit-based development
• Infrastructure configuration/Terraform
• Strong technical documentation and knowledge-transfer experience
• Experience working within a secure or regulated environment
• Active SC Clearance

Desirable

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Monitor/Application Insights
• Private Endpoints/VNet Integration
• APIM policies, rate limiting and request transformation
• Databricks
• AI/LLM or data-driven application experience

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for an engineer who can demonstrate recent, hands‑on production experience across:

APIM - App Service - Entra ID - RBAC/Managed Identity - Terraform - CI/CD - Monitoring

Candidates should be able to demonstrate that they have personally implemented and supported these technologies in production, rather than operating solely in an architectural or advisory capacity.

SC Clearance and 50% onsite attendance in London (TS) are mandatory.