FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to work for our client within the public sector. This is initially a 6-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford, or Bristol.
Our client is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the development and delivery of secure, scalable, and user-focused analytical tooling. This role is a unique opportunity to shape a cloud-based platform designed specifically for analysts, ensuring that their needs are at the heart of its design and functionality.
You will be part of a central data science and engineering team, working closely with data engineers, analysts, and digital colleagues to build and maintain a modern, cloud-native environment for analysis at scale. This platform is being developed to serve a wide analytical community, and your work will directly enable secure, reproducible, and efficient analysis across a range of high-impact domains.
Responsibilities
1. Lead the design, development, and deployment of secure, cloud-based infrastructure for analytical tooling
2. Manage scalable deployments of core tools such as JupyterLab, RStudio, VS Code, Git, and dbt
3. Implement authentication, access control, monitoring, and audit capabilities that align with cross-government security standards
4. Establish robust CI/CD pipelines and effective environment management practices tailored to analytical workflows
5. Collaborate with data engineers and digital delivery teams to ensure seamless integration between analytical tooling and data infrastructure
6. Support user onboarding and continuously gather feedback to improve and evolve the platform
7. Champion best practices in cloud infrastructure, DevOps processes, and security throughout the platform lifecycle