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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