Overview

Recruitment Consultant - Data Engineering, Data Management & Governance at Harnham. A forward-thinking digital business is seeking 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: drive platform automation, improve scalability, and ensure reliability across cloud environments using best-in-class tooling. You will 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 essential, as it forms part of the toolchain.

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

• 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
• Proficient 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

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Manufacturing

Industries

• Animation and Post-production