DevOps Engineer

Project overview

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

This role would suit a hands-on DevOps Engineer with strong AWS, Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code experience who enjoys working on complex, business-critical platforms and driving automation, reliability and continuous improvement across modern cloud environments.

Reasonable Adjustments:

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• Design, deploy and support resilient cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and Kubernetes environments
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and Puppet
• Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, deployment and release management
• Modernise legacy platforms and drive adoption of cloud-native technologies
• Manage and optimise production Kubernetes environments, ensuring scalability, performance and resilience
• Implement monitoring, alerting and observability solutions using Prometheus and Grafana
• Embed security best practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle
• Develop automation tooling using Ansible, Python and Bash
• Work closely with developers, product owners and stakeholders within Agile delivery teams
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis and continuous service improvement activities
• Provide support within a 24/7 operational environment, including participation in an on-call rota

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: London - remote, 1 day per month on site if required, GB

£425/day Inside IR35

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to support and develop a highly available cloud-native platform operating within a 24/7 production environment.

The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, automating and supporting modern infrastructure and deployment platforms, driving cloud adoption, improving operational reliability and enabling the delivery of scalable microservice-based applications.

Working closely with developers, architects and product teams, you will help build and maintain resilient Kubernetes environments, automate delivery pipelines and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions across complex production systems.

Essential Skills

Desirable Skills

• Remote Working
• 1 Day Per Month On-Site (If Required)
• 24/7 On-Call Rota Participation Required
• SC Cleared
• Linux administration (RHEL and/or Ubuntu)
• AWS including EC2, S3, RDS, IAM and VPC
• Kubernetes (EKS and/or RKE)
• Docker
• Helm
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Kafka
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• GitLab CI/CD
• Git
• Certificate Management and PKI
• Secrets Management
• IAM
• Experience with microservice-based architectures
• Hands-on experience managing highly available services within Kubernetes environments
• Experience supporting production traffic through load balancing, auto-scaling and multi-site failover strategies
• Strong stakeholder communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience developing and supporting large-scale microservice ecosystems
• Linux administration within containerised environments
• Puppet
• Keycloak
• HashiCorp Vault
• Python
• Bash
• DevSecOps tooling and practices
• ITIL-based service management experience