DevOps Engineer - Contract Opportunity
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