DevOps Engineer - Contract Opportunity If you want to know about the requirements for this role, read on for all the relevant information. We're partnering with a forward-thinking digital business looking for a DevOps Engineer to support the evolution of their cloud infrastructure and CI/CD capabilities. This is a 4-month contract with a clear scope: help drive platform automation, improve scalability, and ensure reliability across cloud environments using best-in-class tooling. You'll be embedded within a cross-functional engineering team, contributing to the design, implementation, and optimisation of modern DevOps practices. The successful candidate will bring hands-on expertise across Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker, with experience working in Azure environments. Exposure to Azure DevOps is also essential, as it forms part of their toolchain.

Key Responsibilities Build and maintain scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code

Lead the optimisation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and other tooling

Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy containerised applications using Kubernetes and Docker

Support migration and integration across Azure and internal platforms

Monitor infrastructure performance and reliability, implementing automation and alerting as needed

Drive cost optimisation and efficiency across cloud environments

Enforce best practices around cloud governance, platform resilience, and DevOps standards

Skills & Experience Required Strong experience as a DevOps Engineer or Platform Engineer in complex environments

Hands-on with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker

Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly using Azure DevOps

Strong cloud infrastructure knowledge across Azure

Skilled in automating deployment workflows and enabling infrastructure-as-code

Comfortable troubleshooting infrastructure issues across large-scale systems

Experience supporting development teams and improving engineering velocity

Contract Details Length: 4 months (initial)

Day Rate: £480 a day

IR35: Inside IR35

Location: Remote with potential for occasional in-person collaboration