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