Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Summary: The role of DevOps Engineer involves supporting and enhancing containerized environments, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD tooling for a local client. The position requires collaboration with vendors and ownership of Kubernetes operations while maintaining Azure DevOps pipelines. Candidates must be currently SC cleared and are expected to work two days a week in Salisbury, with the remainder of the time being remote. This is a 6-month contract position with a flexible rate classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborating with vendors on container image development, optimisation and maintenance
- Managing, supporting and improving Kubernetes environments
- Building and maintaining Azure DevOps IaC pipelines
- Supporting and operating cloud infrastructure across Azure services, including related tooling
- Implementing and maintaining Helm charts, deployment manifests and Git-based workflows
- Ensuring secure and efficient use of registries (ACR/ECR), secrets, storage and ingress
- Supporting messaging and streaming components such as RabbitMQ and Kafka
- Managing cloud networking elements including Azure Application Gateway, CDN and SSO integrations
Key Skills:
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (high priority)
- Azure DevOps (Infrastructure as Code)
- Mongo DB (must have)
- GitLab (sources, pipelines, repo management)
- Container registry experience (ACR/ECR)
- Bash scripting
- Helm chart authoring/management
- ArgoCD
- Azure security & platform components: Key Vault, Blob Storage, CDN, Enterprise Apps/SSO
- Messaging & streaming: RabbitMQ, Kafka
- Experience with Azure Application Gateway
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Salisbury
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Hays are now looking for a DevOps Engineer for one of our local clients:
- Flexible Rate - Inside IR35
- 2 Days a week in Salisbury, the rest is WFH
- 6 Month Contract
- Must be currently SC Cleared
OverviewWe are looking for a Cloud DevOps Engineer to support and enhance our clients containerised environments, cloud infrastructure and CI/CD tooling. You will work closely with vendors, own Kubernetes operations, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines and associated Azure services.
What You'll Be Doing
- Collaborating with vendors on container image development, optimisation and maintenance
- Managing, supporting and improving Kubernetes environments
- Building and maintaining Azure DevOps IaC pipelines
- Supporting and operating cloud infrastructure across Azure services, including related tooling
- Implementing and maintaining Helm charts, deployment manifests and Git-based workflows
- Ensuring secure and efficient use of registries (ACR/ECR), secrets, storage and ingress
- Supporting messaging and streaming components such as RabbitMQ and Kafka
- Managing cloud networking elements including Azure Application Gateway, CDN and SSO integrations
What We're Looking For
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (high priority)
- Azure DevOps (Infrastructure as Code)
- Mongo DB (must have)
- GitLab (sources, pipelines, repo management)
- Container registry experience (ACR/ECR)
- Bash scripting
- Helm chart authoring/management
- ArgoCD
- Azure security & platform components: Key Vault, Blob Storage, CDN, Enterprise Apps/SSO
- Messaging & streaming: RabbitMQ, Kafka
- Experience with Azure Application Gateway
If you're currently SC Clearedand are interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call please send a copy of your CV to
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