Sobre

Location: Remote

Contract details: Freelance/6 months with possibility to extend

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team and play a key role in delivering, optimizing, and maintaining our core applications and Azure infrastructure across multiple environments.
You will work as part of project teams, collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders in daily standups to support and enhance DevOps initiatives. The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, cloud infrastructure, and continuous delivery, with strong hands-on experience in Azure and modern DevOps tools.

• Set up new Azure DevOps projects and design CI/CD pipelines for seamless and automated deployments.

• Design, develop, and manage CI/CD pipelines for:

  • Application deployments

  • Databricks components (jobs, notebooks, clusters, etc.)

  • Terraform deployments for infrastructure provisioning

• Automate infrastructure and application deployment processes to ensure consistency and scalability across environments using reusable Terraform modules.

• Manage and optimize Azure environments, ensuring performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

• Work closely with security teams to ensure all deployments and infrastructure comply with Hiscox security standards and policies.

• Collaborate with developers, data engineers, and other stakeholders to implement best practices in continuous integration, delivery, and infrastructure management.

• Monitor and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure issues, ensuring timely resolutions.

• Core: Azure, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Databricks, Azure Data Factory

• Nice to Have: Puppet, Bitbucket

• Other: PowerShell / Bash scripting, Git-based version control, YAML pipelines

• Proven experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.

• Hands-on experience with Terraform for cloud infrastructure provisioning and automation.

• Experience working with Databricks and Azure Data Factory.

• Strong understanding of Azure cloud services, including networking, resource groups, storage, and identity management.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code principles and configuration management tools.

• Solid understanding of DevOps principles, agile methodologies, and SDLC.

• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams.

• Experience with Puppet for configuration management.

• Knowledge of Bitbucket pipelines or integration with Azure DevOps.

• Understanding of security and compliance best practices in cloud environments.