DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote (occasional travel to York, 1–2 times per month)
Contract Length: 6 months
IR35 Status: Outside IR35
Start Date: Immediate
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WRK digital is excited to partner with a well-known and trusted UK brand to recruit a skilled DevOps Engineer for a new contract opportunity. This is a fantastic chance to join a forward-thinking technology team focused on scalability, automation, and cloud infrastructure innovation.
Were looking for an experienced DevOps professional who can lead and support the build, deployment, and optimisation of cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines — primarily within an AWS environment. You will play a key role in ensuring infrastructure is robust, secure, and designed for scalability using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, with a strong emphasis on Terraform.
Key Responsibilities:
* Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS services and Terraform
* Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support application deployment and environment management
* Collaborate with development, data, and security teams to ensure efficient and secure infrastructure delivery
* Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring
* Ensure high availability, performance, and disaster recovery strategies are in place
* Monitor systems for performance and reliability issues, resolving incidents quickly and efficiently
* Advocate for DevOps best practices and continuous improvement within the team
Key Skills & Experience:
* Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, ideally within a mid-to-large scale cloud environment
* Strong hands-on experience with AWS (e.g. EC2, S3, ECS, Lambda, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch)
* Solid experience writing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
* Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar
* Familiarity with containerisation tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes a plus)
* Knowledge of monitoring/logging tools (e.g. CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK)
* Strong scripting skills (e.g. Bash, Python)
* Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Location & Flexibility:
This is a remote-first contract role, with a requirement to attend meetings in York 1–2 times per month.