Senior Azure Engineer - Azure application, DevOps & security Engineer - SC Cleared Senior Azure Application, DevOps & Security Engineer
Location: London (TS)
Contract: Temporary
Duration: 02 November 2026 - 30 April 2027
Positions: 2
Rate: £385 per day
Clearance: SC Clearance required
Working: 50% onsite
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Azure Application, DevOps & Security Engineer to support a major technology programme within a regulated environment.
This is a hands‑on engineering role , focused on productionising an existing application hosted on Azure App Service and establishing a secure, reliable and repeatable Azure platform.
You will be responsible for integrating Azure API Management (APIM) with App Service, implementing the security and identity model, improving CI/CD, monitoring and operational processes, and providing technical documentation and knowledge transfer.
Key Responsibilities
- Configure and integrate Azure API Management with Azure App Service
- Develop and manage APIM policies, authentication, routing, certificates and error handling
- Configure Entra ID, Managed Identities and RBAC
- Implement secure API and application access models
- Configure App Service settings, networking, DNS and certificates
- Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
- Implement infrastructure and configuration using Terraform
- Build and integrate REST APIs using Python
- Implement logging, monitoring, health checks and alerting using Azure Monitor/Application Insights
- Troubleshoot production deployment, connectivity, authentication and application issues
- Support repeatable deployment, testing, rollback and recovery processes
- Produce technical documentation, operational runbooks and reusable deployment patterns
- Provide knowledge transfer to internal technology teams
Essential Skills
- Strong hands‑on Azure engineering experience
- Azure API Management (APIM)
- Azure App Service
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Managed Identities & RBAC
- Azure application and API security
- Production CI/CD
- Python & REST APIs
- Networking, DNS and certificates
- Logging, monitoring and operational supportGit-based development
- Infrastructure configuration/Terraform
- Strong technical documentation and knowledge-transfer experience
- Experience working within a secure or regulated environment
- Active SC Clearance
Desirable
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Actions
- Azure Key Vault
- Azure Monitor/Application Insights
- Private Endpoints/VNet Integration
- APIM policies, rate limiting and request transformation
- Databricks
- AI/LLM or data-driven application experience
Ideal Candidate
We are looking for an engineer who can demonstrate recent, hands‑on production experience across:
APIM - App Service - Entra ID - RBAC/Managed Identity - Terraform - CI/CD - Monitoring
Candidates should be able to demonstrate that they have personally implemented and supported these technologies in production , rather than operating solely in an architectural or advisory capacity.
SC Clearance and 50% onsite attendance in London (TS) are mandatory.
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Senior Azure Engineer - Azure Application, Devops & Security Engineer - SC Cleared in London employer: UNITING PEOPLE LTD
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