DevOps Engineer at BigHand, London/Remote, 6 Months, £Competitive Day Rate (Outside IR35)

DevOps Engineer (6 Month Contract)

Hybrid - 1 Day Onsite in London

Competitive Day Rate (Outside IR35)

About BigHand

BigHand offers technology solutions for busy legal professionals that provide data and insights to increase value and profits. Through our expert knowledge and innovative technology, we enable our customers to achieve enhanced efficiency, better decision-making and harness their competitive edge.

We build with tomorrow in mind, transforming ideas into action and empowering our customers to succeed in a world of constant change. We make big happen for our customers.

We are a business driven by our values and have these at the centre of everything we do. Our BigHanders are dedicated to building a culture where We Win Together, We Love to Learn, We Do the Right Thing, We Own It and We Find the Fun.

What you’ll do

• Actively promoting DevOps ways of working and SRE best practices within the teams
• Work with DevOps/Platform Engineers, Developers, Architecture and Security to design, plan, implement and release necessary changes according to the needs of the business.
• Working with other DevOps/Platform Engineers in providing templates and knowledge that facilitates smooth automation process through out a project lifecycle
• Support continuous improvement in processes, tooling, and system architecture of the underlying infrastructure and capabilities.
• Work on everything from transitioning on-prem services into Azure cloud (PaaS and IaaS services), helping move to and maintain orchestrated container-based service architecture (Azure Kubernetes and Docker).
• Add, improve and maintain modules in our Terraform & PowerShell module library
• Create and maintain robust monitoring and alerting solutions of applications, networks, data and infrastructure services. Assist in the creation of reports/dashboards for usage and up-time.
• Manage and monitor system health to ensure that issues are quickly identified and resolved
• Collaborate with the IT operations and development teams to plan and execute system changes e.g., security and audit controls as required by the business or compliance requirements
• Automate build and release manual activities using DevOps best practices
• Create guides and documentation for the development team to operate and maintain products.
• Participate in incident management. Prioritise incidents to help deliver within SLAs. Carry out strong diagnosis to discover root cause and resolutions. Provide out of hours support on a rota basis throughout the year
• Help manage resources efficiently through efficient capacity planning and scaling of service

What we’re looking for

• A collaborative mindset, strong communication skills, and a willingness to learn and grow.
• Practical experience with Azure cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), DevOps pipelines, and networking.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Packer) and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, SQL, KQL).
• Experience with CI/CD, integrating security and code quality tools.
• Proficiency in containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), including Azure-managed environments.
• Experience designing, securing, and testing APIs.
• Strong understanding of security controls across infrastructure, applications, and data, including WAF and SSDLC practices.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
• Experience with BCP and disaster recovery for on-prem or cloud environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and familiarity with Agile and operations best practices.
• Experience with Azure DevOps Boards and building integrations using Azure services.
• Ability to support full project lifecycles from design to delivery.

Our DEI Commitment

We welcome the unique value and individuality that you can bring to BigHand. We are an equal opportunity employer and are dedicated to recruiting solely based on capability and potential regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, educational background, national origin, religion, military status or physical ability. Our BigHanders are dedicated to advancing our culture of belonging by embracing differing viewpoints, opinions, thoughts, and ideas.