BLACK MARBLE LIMITED
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Delivery with Azure Bicep
Black Marble implements Infrastructure as Code using Azure Bicep to design, standardise, and automate cloud environments. We deliver modular templates, policy‑driven governance, CI/CD integration, and guard‑railed releases using Azure DevOps or GitHub. Engagements include ARM/Bicep authoring, validation, and optimisation to achieve repeatable, secure, and cost‑efficient Azure deployments.
Features
- Bicep module libraries and reference architectures
- ARM TTK validation in CI/CD gates
- Azure DevOps/GitHub IaC pipelines
- Policy‑as‑Code, tagging, and guardrails.
- Secrets and parameter management patterns
- ARM to Bicep migration services.
- Landing‑zone‑ready structures.
- Git‑based versioning and review workflows
- Release runbooks and rollback procedures.
- Workshops and enablement packages
Benefits
- Faster, safer infrastructure releases.
- Consistency via reusable modules
- Reduced risk with automated validation.
- Strong governance and compliance.
- Lower ops effort through automation. [DevOps Str...chitecture | PDF]
- Clear ownership and cost attribution.
- Future‑proof template estate (Bicep uplift)
- Scalability via landing‑zone patterns
- Full audit trail and rollback.
- Internal capability uplift and self‑service.
Architecture roles
Business architect
| £800.00 |
£50.00 |
| £800.00 |
£50.00 |
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
Data architect
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,200.00 |
£50.00 |
Enterprise architect
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,200.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,300.00 |
£50.00 |
Solution architect
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,200.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,300.00 |
£50.00 |
Technical architect
| £800.00 |
£50.00 |
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,300.00 |
£50.00 |
Chief digital and data roles
Chief information security officer
| £1,200.00 |
£50.00 |
Chief technology officer
| £1,300.00 |
£50.00 |
Data roles
Data engineer
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,200.00 |
£50.00 |
IT operations roles
Application operations engineer
| £800.00 |
£50.00 |
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,200.00 |
£50.00 |
Business relationship manager
| £800.00 |
£50.00 |
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
Infrastructure engineer
| £800.00 |
£50.00 |
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,200.00 |
£50.00 |
Service desk manager
| £800.00 |
£50.00 |
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
Quality assurance testing (QAT) roles
Quality assurance testing (QAT) analyst
| £800.00 |
£50.00 |
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
Test engineer
| £800.00 |
£50.00 |
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
Test manager
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,200.00 |
£50.00 |
Software development roles
Development operations (DevOps) engineer
| £800.00 |
£50.00 |
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,200.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,300.00 |
£50.00 |
Frontend developer
| £800.00 |
£50.00 |
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,300.00 |
£50.00 |
Software developer
| £800.00 |
£50.00 |
| £900.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,000.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,100.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,200.00 |
£50.00 |
| £1,300.00 |
£50.00 |
User-centred design roles
Graphic designer
| £700.00 |
£50.00 |
| £750.00 |
£50.00 |
| £800.00 |
£50.00 |
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
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ISO/IEC 27001 certification
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Yes
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Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
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Citation ISO Certification Limited
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ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
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Thursday 18 December 2025
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What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
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Technically nothing, as it covers all our services: The development and deployment of various IT cloud platforms, tools, and consultancy services from integration, migration, application modernisation, health checks and AI to a wide range of sectors.
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ISO 28000:2022 certification
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No
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ISO 9001 certification
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No
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Quality management systems (QMS)
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Yes
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CSA STAR certification
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No
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PCI certification
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No
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Cyber essentials
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Yes
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Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
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24188a59-3eb2-4edb-a74d-b81ae251be67
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Cyber essentials plus
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No
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Cyber Essentials Alternative
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None of the criteria
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Other security certifications
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No
Social value
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Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority
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Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
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Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
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Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
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Employment contracts that reflect actual hours worked; steps taken to ensure employees understand their contracts and have the ability to review and adjust them if actual hours regularly exceed contracted hours
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Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
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Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
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Activities to cascade good practice on fair working conditions throughout the supply chain
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Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
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Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
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Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
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Entitlement to sick pay for the contract workforce, with provision in place for any staff who do not meet the earnings threshold for statutory sick pay, payment of sick pay from day one of absence and payment of staff on the contract workforce who are off sick a replacement income of 100% of their usual earnings for as long as possible
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Plans for an appropriate income replacement policy for staff who are required to spend time away from work to care for a sick dependent or close relative
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Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
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Measures to support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
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Support for the contract workforce by providing career advice, and providing opportunities for staff working on the contract with in-work progression career development into known skills shortages or high growth areas
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Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
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