Remote Azure Devops Engineer - Fixed Term Contract in Rochdale

The salary for this role is £45,000. This role is advertised on a 12 month fixed term contract with the possibility of extension.

Are you a hands-on DevOps engineer who enjoys solving live issues and making platforms better each week? Can you turn Azure, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code into smooth, reliable delivery pipelines? Would you love the opportunity to build secure Azure pipelines that keep real, live services running every day? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

At Livestock Information Ltd, our mission is to be an outstanding service provider of livestock data, empowering government, industry, and farmers to effectively manage disease and infection control, whilst enhancing productivity and innovation in agriculture. To achieve this, we need great people, who share in our values.

As an Azure DevOps Engineer, you'll design and manage DevOps pipelines across PaaS-based Azure environments, embedding secure-by-design principles and meeting industry and government security standards. You'll work closely with development, operations, and security teams to deliver automated, secure, and scalable services, while supporting live and non-production platforms. The role includes 3rd-line support, break-fix and out-of-hours cover on a shift basis, platform optimisation, and providing hands-on technical support to development teams.

• Deploying, monitoring, maintaining and improving our Azure platform.
• Providing timely and efficient break-fix support to resolve system issues and minimise downtime in line with Service Level Agreements including out-of-hours.
• Monitoring system performance, availability, and capacity, perform infrastructure as code optimisation to ensure cost efficiency and reliable service.
• Providing 3rd line support for live Azure Platform services, addressing complex issues and coordinating with internal teams to maintain service uptime.
• Delivering and supporting the customers' infrastructure requirements for service enhancements and new projects.
• Leveraging deep expertise in Microsoft Azure's IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings to design, implement, and manage cloud-based solutions that align with business and technical needs.
• Designing, building, and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with design partners, enabling faster, more reliable software releases.
• Implementing best practices for version control, continuous integration, and code review processes.
• Using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or terraform to provision and manage Azure cloud resources. Ensure consistent, secure, and reproducible infrastructure deployments.
• Implementing security best practices and align infrastructure with compliance frameworks such as the Azure Security Benchmark, CIS benchmark, NIST, NCSC.
• Configuring real-time monitoring and alerting within Azure to gain insights into application performance and system health. Set up proactive alerts to respond to any incidents and anomalies promptly.
• Fostering strong relationships with software development, testing, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration of DevOps practices.

You may be required to undertake other duties assigned by your line manager as appropriate.

• Extensive experience in Azure DevOps managing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Azure networking and zero trust methodologies primarily working in a live services support.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code principles and tools such as Terraform and Azure Resource Manager (ARM), and experience in provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Understanding of security best practices for cloud environments, and ability to implement security best practices and align infrastructure with compliance frameworks such as the Azure Security Benchmark, CIS benchmark, NIST, NCSC.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders and communicate technical concepts and solutions in a clear and concise manner.
• Experience developing using JavaScript, C#.

This role will report to the Azure Engineering Manager and will sit within our Service department.

As an LI employee, you will be entitled to our company benefits which include:

• A fully remote and flexible working set up.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service up to maximum of 30 days (plus Bank Holidays).
• 1 Privilege Day.
• 4 x annual salary Life Assurance.
• Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General.
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies.
• Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities.
• 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
• A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued.

To apply for this role, you will need to submit a CV and answer some pre-screening questions. The interview and assessment process for this role will involve a telephone interview with our Talent Team, followed by a first stage and a final stage interview. Interviews will be conducted either remotely via MS Teams or face to face.

If we need to make a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, please contact us as soon as possible by emailing talent@livestockinformation.org.uk before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Please note that we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

At Livestock Information, we value diversity and believe that every individual brings different strengths. We understand that not everyone may possess every single skill outlined in this job description, but if you believe you have a solid skill set that enables you to excel in this position then we really encourage you to apply.

Livestock Information Ltd. cannot sponsor work visas at this time. Livestock Information Ltd. does not discriminate based on race, sex, colour, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.