Overview

Contract DevOps Engineer | Up to £325 Outside IR35 | 3 months (rolling) | Remote, UK

A leading consultancy and software company working on large-scale optimisation projects in the water resources and infrastructure space is seeking a DevOps Engineer to help deliver a key initial 3-month project. This role will focus on building a scalable system for deploying compute-intensive optimisation jobs on a cluster, with automated scheduling, data storage, and API integration.

About the Project

The goal is to create a system that:

• Submits optimisation jobs via an existing API.
• Automatically deploys them on a compute cluster with the requested cores.
• Stores outputs in a big data database for future analysis.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with Slurm or similar job schedulers.
• Expertise in Docker (Kubernetes experience a plus).
• Big data database design (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Hadoop/S3).
• Proficiency in Python for API integration.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

On offer

• Up to £325 Outside IR35 p/d
• 3 months (rolling)

If you enjoy building complex compute systems from the ground up and thrive on hands-on engineering challenges, this project offers the chance to design and deploy a cutting-edge optimisation platform at scale.

Due to high volume of applicants, not all candidates will receive feedback.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract