Senior Azure Engineer - Azure Application, Devops & Security Engineer - SC Cleared

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.