DevOps Engineer - (Contract - Outside of IR35)
Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
UK Based London or Basingstoke
Day Rate: £400-500 per day
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 3 months
A DevOps Engineer is an essential role within the Platform Engineering team, focused on maintaining the integrity and reliability of software applications. They play a crucial part in addressing and solving technical issues that arise, ensuring that customers receive prompt and effective solutions to their problems.
DevOps Engineers are diligent communicators who use their technical knowledge to perform analyses, troubleshoot and resolve issues, make recommendations for improvements, and execute necessary maintenance to enhance the user experience and system functionality.
Technologies in use:
AWS Services & Infrastructure (Control Tower, IAM, ECR, etc.)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Containerised Systems (Docker, Kubernetes, Karpenter)
Storage (EBS, S3)
Security & Identity Management (IAM, SSO, VPN, Authentik)
CI/CD & Deployment Automation (Bitbucket, GitLab, ArgoCD)
Monitoring & Logging (Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Prometheus, UpTrends)
Networking (Global Accelerator, TGW, WAF, VPN)
Messaging (Kafka)
Service Mesh (Linkerd)
Databases & Data Stores (RDS, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
Secrets & Credentials Management (Vault)
Version & Package Management (Artifactory, Nexus)
Code Quality & Security Analysis Tools (Sonar)
Key Responsibilities
Routine Platform Maintenance
Apply security patches to infrastructure and services
Perform regular backups and validate backup integrity
Rotate SSL/TLS certificates and other secrets as required
Monitor platform health and apply basic remediations
Infrastructure Hygiene & Upkeep
Clean up unused or legacy infrastructure components
Maintain and update internal runbooks and technical documentation
CI/CD Pipeline Maintenance
Review and standardise pipeline configurations (GitLab, ArgoCD)
Troubleshoot and resolve basic build/deploy failures
Create reusable pipeline templates or automation scripts
Identify and automate routine tasks using scripting (e.g. Bash, Python)
Investigation and Troubleshooting
Investigate and resolve back-end and infrastructure production issues
Troubleshoot technical issues or questions reported by customers
Key Skills
Experience operating distributed systems at scale
Excellent external and internal communication skills and team collaboration
Working knowledge of databases and SQL
Strong capability with infrastructure with AWS, Kubernetes & Terraform
Good understanding of DNS, CI/CD workflows and infrastructure as code
Observability experience (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
Development experience with object-oriented programming (e.g., Java)
Diligence, quality-focused, and analytical skills
Proactive in contributing to organisational success
