DevOps Engineer

Akkodis is seeking an Azure Automation Engineer for a 6+ Months Contract job with a client. The role involves designing, building, and operating automation for Azure infrastructure, focusing on infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD enablement to ensure compliant and supportable deployments across environments.

Responsibilities:

• Designs, builds, and operates automation that standardizes and accelerates Azure platform delivery
• The role focuses on infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD enablement, subscription provisioning (vending), governance guardrail automation, and monitoring/alerting codification to ensure repeatable, compliant, and supportable deployments across environments
• Deliver production-grade automation for Azure infrastructure (design, build, test, rollout, and support), with strong troubleshooting across identity/permissions, policy effects, networking dependencies, quotas, and platform limits
• Implement and operate subscription provisioning/vending workflows aligned to enterprise governance (standard configuration, RBAC/policy bootstrap, logging/monitoring hooks, approvals, and promotion across environments)
• Develop infrastructure-as-code modules to provision various Azure services
• Codify and operationalize monitoring and alerting baselines for production workloads, including alert tuning and operational readiness (runbooks, KT, handover)
• Ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments, including promotion across lower/higher environments with appropriate controls
• Experience implementing Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts and onboarding services into enterprise observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace), including tagging standards and alert routing
• Working knowledge of Azure Landing Zone (enterprise-scale) concepts and automating platform guardrails (policy initiatives, RBAC patterns, management group structures)
• Experience building discovery/inventory automation for tenants/subscriptions/resources (including service principals, groups, and role assignments) to support migration planning
• Familiarity with ITSM/SDLC controls and tooling (change tickets, UAT support, defect management such as JIRA) in regulated environments

Requirements:

• Designs, builds, and operates automation that standardizes and accelerates Azure platform delivery
• The role focuses on infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD enablement, subscription provisioning (vending), governance guardrail automation, and monitoring/alerting codification to ensure repeatable, compliant, and supportable deployments across environments
• Deliver production-grade automation for Azure infrastructure (design, build, test, rollout, and support), with strong troubleshooting across identity/permissions, policy effects, networking dependencies, quotas, and platform limits
• Implement and operate subscription provisioning/vending workflows aligned to enterprise governance (standard configuration, RBAC/policy bootstrap, logging/monitoring hooks, approvals, and promotion across environments)
• Develop infrastructure-as-code modules to provision various Azure services
• Codify and operationalize monitoring and alerting baselines for production workloads, including alert tuning and operational readiness (runbooks, KT, handover)
• Ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments, including promotion across lower/higher environments with appropriate controls
• Experience implementing Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts and onboarding services into enterprise observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace), including tagging standards and alert routing
• Working knowledge of Azure Landing Zone (enterprise-scale) concepts and automating platform guardrails (policy initiatives, RBAC patterns, management group structures)
• Experience building discovery/inventory automation for tenants/subscriptions/resources (including service principals, groups, and role assignments) to support migration planning
• Familiarity with ITSM/SDLC controls and tooling (change tickets, UAT support, defect management such as JIRA) in regulated environments
• Certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate / DevOps Engineer Expert
• Terraform and/or Bicep/ARM templates
• Azure DevOps Pipelines and/or GitHub
• Azure Migrate or similar tools
• Scripting: PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Python
• Azure Monitor/Log Analytics
• Dynatrace
• Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent
• Azure platform automation: subscriptions, management groups, RBAC assignments, policy initiatives, and standard resource deployments
• PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python
• Very good communication and documentation skills