Senior Azure Infra Engineer - DevOps & Security (Hybrid)

mthree; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Peregrine is seeking a Senior Azure Application, DevOps & Security Engineer (SC Cleared) for a permanent hybrid role supporting a UK financial regulator. You will productionise an Azure App Service-backed analytics app, connect API Management, and harden security and deployment processes.

You will own end-to-end implementation, from authentication and RBAC with Entra ID to CI/CD, monitoring, and knowledge transfer.

Qualifications

• Strong, hands-on Azure application and cloud engineering experience.
• Azure API Management and Azure App Service in a production environment.
• Entra ID authentication, managed identities and role-based access control.
• Application and API security within a secure or regulated environment.
• Networking, certificates, DNS and service-to-service connectivity.
• Production CI/CD for Azure-hosted applications.
• Python and REST API integration.
• Secrets management, logging, monitoring and operational support.
• Git-based development and infrastructure configuration.
• Clear technical documentation and effective knowledge transfer.
• Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Application Insights and Azure Monitor.
• Private endpoints, virtual network integration and network security controls.
• Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Databricks integration.
• API policies, rate limiting, validation and request transformation.
• Experience supporting AI, LLM or data-driven applications.

Responsibilities

• Configure and secure the connection between API Management and App Service, including routes, policies, authentication, certificates and network access.
• Review, correct and harden the App Service configuration so the application starts, scales and operates reliably, including managed identities, secrets and environment-specific settings.
• Design and implement the application's security model: user, application and service-to-service authentication, RBAC, and Entra ID integration.
• Build and deploy a caching layer to support usage tracking, including the Terraform infrastructure to provision it, plus an application database built and operated through Terraform.
• Implement or improve CI/CD for the App Service and API Management configuration, with automated testing, configuration validation and deployment checks across development, test, UAT and production.
• Introduce health checks, diagnostic logging and monitoring, integrating Azure Monitor and Application Insights to track usage activity and service health.
• Produce clear technical documentation, runbooks and reusable deployment patterns, and run knowledge-transfer sessions with the internal team.

Skills

Azure

API Management

App Service

Entra ID

RBAC

CI/CD

Python

Monitoring

Terraform

Databricks

GitHub Actions

Azure Monitor

Tools

Terraform

Databricks

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Peregrine is seeking a Senior Azure Application, DevOps & Security Engineer (SC Cleared) for a permanent hybrid role supporting a UK financial regulator. You will productionise an Azure App Service-backed analytics app, connect API Management, and harden security and deployment processes.

You will own end-to-end implementation, from authentication and RBAC with Entra ID to CI/CD, monitoring, and knowledge transfer.