DevOps Consultant - DevSecOps
3-6 month Contract - Part time basis 2/3 days a week
Location: Milton Keynes - 2 days on site
Rate: £550 - £650 per day

We are recruiting for an experienced DevOps Consultant to design, implement, and optimise secure CI/CD pipelines within an Azure-based environment.

This role will play a key part in embedding security-first DevOps practices, improving delivery pipelines, and enabling development teams through automation, tooling, and best practice guidance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps

• Integrate security tooling (SAST/DAST) into build and release pipelines

• Embed DevSecOps controls, including:

• Vulnerability scanning

• Secure build gates

• Policy enforcement

Collaborate with engineering and security teams to improve:

• Build, test, and deployment workflows
• Feedback loops and release quality

Implement DevOps best practices across:

• Automation
• Version control strategies
• Monitoring and release processes

Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline, deployment, and security issuesProvide documentation, knowledge transfer, and mentoring to internal teams

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience with Azure DevOps (CI/CD pipelines)

• Proven background in DevOps / DevSecOps consulting roles

• Hands-on experience integrating SAST and DAST tools into pipelines

• Solid understanding of secure software delivery practices

• Experience with:

• Containerisation

• Orchestration

Strong knowledge of:

• Git and branching strategies
• Automation and infrastructure-as-code principles

Desirable Experience

• Experience with security tools
• Familiarity with Azure cloud architecture
• Experience working in regulated or security-sensitive environments