DevOps Engineer : Up to £300 per day Outside IR35 : Hybrid North East
A specialist technology company is seeking a DevOps Engineer for a 3-month contract to build out a scalable job orchestration and results platform across an existing compute cluster and customer-facing API.
Key Responsibilities as a DevOps Engineer:
• Extend Slurm cluster job scheduling via Docker and test AWS expansion
• Design and implement a big data storage layer for optimisation outputs (MongoDB or S3-backed)
• Augment REST API with endpoints for job submission, status, and results retrieval
• Integrate monitoring and logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Extend Vue/Python dashboards and deliver IaC templates with full documentation
Skills & Key Requirements:
• Strong Slurm or equivalent job scheduler experience
• Deep Docker knowledge (Kubernetes a plus)
• Big data database design: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Hadoop/S3
• Python/Flask for API development
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform or Ansible
• Observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
Contract Details:
• Day Rate: Up to £300.00 per day Outside IR35
• Contract Length: 3 months
• Location: North of England preferred, hybrid
• Start Date: ASAP
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