Azure Data & DevOps Engineer

Candidate Description

Specialising in Azure cloud delivery, the candidate brings over seven years of experience across DevOps, data engineering and site reliability. Their career includes Senior Consultant responsibilities at a Consulting Firm, Azure DevOps engineering at a Consulting Firm and site reliability engineering at a Technology Services Company. Their current profile identifies a permanent Azure Data & DevOps Engineer position with a Consulting Firm. They combine CI/CD engineering, infrastructure automation and operational support with data ingestion, transformation, orchestration and governance expertise. Client engagements span transportation, banking and insurance, including a Transport Agency, an Insurance Company and a Bank. Analytical problem-solving and practical troubleshooting underpin their approach to reliable enterprise delivery.

Their delivery strengths connect automated software releases with modern Azure data platforms. For a Transport Agency, they led reporting solution development, created a Data Quality Exception Report Dashboard and configured Azure Pipelines for automated build, test and deployment activities. They implemented YAML-based pipeline configurations, Azure Repos source control, Azure Monitor and Application Insights monitoring, and Azure Key Vault secret management. At an Insurance Company, they designed enterprise data processes and led a transition from traditional data warehousing to a lakehouse architecture, strengthening data quality and governance. For a Bank, they modelled credit-risk data and engineered Databricks transformations supporting a bank merger. Their wider toolkit includes Azure Data Factory, Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake, Docker, Kubernetes, PowerShell, shell scripting, Jenkins and code-analysis tools, supported by Agile delivery and ITIL release practices.

Beyond implementation, they bring client collaboration, requirements gathering and team mentoring experience. At a Consulting Firm, they supported knowledge transitions and helped colleagues resolve issues across build, deployment and environment-management activities. Their background spans development, QA, UAT and production environments on Windows and Linux, alongside high-availability Azure operations. Professional recognition includes High-flier, Applause, Game Changer and A-Team awards, together with peer and client appreciation for initiative, quality and timely delivery. Specific recognition includes resolving an Azure job-execution issue and completing a Dataiku installation on schedule. Holding Azure Administrator Associate and DevOps Engineer Expert certifications, they offer a versatile combination of cloud operations, delivery automation and enterprise data engineering capability.