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On behalf of The Insolvency Service, we are looking for a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 6 Month Remote contract with occasional visits to Birmingham.

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented, enthusiastic Senior Azure DevOps Engineer within our Digital Services team. We are responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting the agency’s line of business applications.

Digital Services has recently transitioned from a third-party DevOps model to a fully in house capability. We are standardising and consolidating our technology stack as we move away from legacy services, creating a fantastic opportunity for you to help shape our future digital landscape.

Digital Services is part of Change and Technology Services (CTS) who support and improve applications and systems across the agency’s IT landscape. CTS provide key services including digital services, cyber security, information governance, service architecture and technical governance.

Our DevOps team looks after the deployment and maintenance of our Digital Services in line with the Government’s Digital Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice. They work closely with delivery teams to ensure the products are secure and meet the demands of its users.

As a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer you will:

• provide subject matter expertise in Microsoft Azure

• build and maintain infrastructure as code and CI/CD tooling

• improve deployment and observability for key digital products

• provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise and guidance on Microsoft Azure.

• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tooling.

• Improve deployment pipelines, monitoring and observability across our digital products.

• Ensure the stability, security and performance of production and non‑production environments.

• Lead on incident investigation, root cause analysis, and service improvement.

• Define and maintain DevOps standards, including IaC, observability, deployment patterns, and runbooks.

• Support delivery teams with DevOps best practice and provide mentoring to junior engineers.

• Produce clear, accurate documentation aligned to Digital Services standards.

• Contribute to technical estimates and roadmap planning.

Essential Skills

To be considered for this role you must:

• Possess at least 5 years’ experience in a similar role using Microsoft Azure.

• Possess at least 3 years of CI/CD experience using Azure DevOps(ADO)/Team Foundation Server (TFS).

• Have extensive experience creating, maintaining and monitoring both Azure PaaS and IaaS resources.

• Have demonstrable experience of running multiple applications in multiple environments in a large enterprise.

• Have experience is writing and maintaining bicep IaC at an expert level.

Desirable

• Have an active Security Clearance or be committed to gaining clearance within the first 6 months of joining.

You will need to:

• Be an enthusiastic team player, comfortable collaborating with colleagues at all levels.

• Stay calm under pressure and manage multiple priorities effectively.

• Have a keen eye for detail and a tenacious approach to solving problems.

• Possess strong analytical skills with the ability to identify patterns, diagnose issues and improve repeatable processes.

• Ideally have experience in software development

• Communicate clearly and confidently, both verbally and in writing.

• Build strong relationships across Digital Services to support secure, stable delivery.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, The Insolvency Service guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces commitment

The Insolvency Service guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".