Senior Azure SME & DevOps contractor helping teams ship faster and safer with Terraform, CI/CD, AKS and secure-by-design cloud platforms. UK based, available for contract engagements.
Designing secure, scalable Azure landing zones with Policy, RBAC, networking (vNets, Private Endpoints, Bastion), and automated governance.
Reusable YAML templates, multi-stage pipelines, quality gates and security scanning in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
Idempotent, versioned modules for App Services, API Management, Storage, Cosmos DB, Synapse, and more — across dev/test/prod.
AKS, Container Apps, image pipelines, Helm, and secure supply chain from build to production.
Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Databricks, Azure SQL, Logic Apps, and API Management with CI/CD.
Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, shift-left policies, plus tagging, budgets, rightsizing and cost dashboards.
CI/CD with Azure DevOps; Terraform-provisioned Azure; Azure SQL for SOX; Microsoft Fabric–backed document ingestion; observability via Azure Monitor and App Insights; cost visibility tagging and budgets.
Reusable YAML templates, Terraform modules for core services, Synapse & Databricks CI/CD, and secure network design (Bastion, App Gateway, DNS) delivering faster, safer releases.
Tenant-to-tenant Azure migration after acquisition; RBAC & Policy, conditional access, CI/CD with Azure DevOps & GitHub Actions; phased rollout to protect live services.
Datacentre to Azure migration using ARM/Azure Migrate/ASR; integration of DNS, Front Door, and Load Balancer for performance and high availability.
Azure (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS), ARM/Bicep, Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Docker, AKS, Container Apps, Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Databricks, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Logic Apps, API Management, Azure Monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics.
Contract availability for Azure architecture, DevOps and migration work. Based in Edinburgh, UK — working with public and private sector clients.