DevOps Engineer - Contract
Posted Today by The Digital Recruitment Company
£700 Per day
Undetermined
Undetermined
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer involves supporting a business in evolving its platform and infrastructure as it scales. The position focuses on enhancing scalability, reliability, and developer experience through cloud infrastructure design and CI/CD pipeline maintenance. The engineer will collaborate closely with engineering teams to optimize deployment and release processes. This contract role offers the opportunity to significantly influence engineering practices within the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Designing and improving cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS)
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Supporting containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Driving improvements in system reliability, monitoring and observability
- Working closely with engineering teams to improve deployment and release processes
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in AWS (or similar cloud platforms)
- Proven background in DevOps or platform engineering roles
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation or similar)
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and automation
- Experience working in modern engineering environments
- Experience in high-scale or high-availability systems (nice to have)
- Exposure to security best practices (DevSecOps) (nice to have)
- Experience improving developer experience at scale (nice to have)
Salary (Rate): £700 daily
City: City Of London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer (Contract) | AWS | £500–£700/day
Advert: We are supporting a business going through a significant platform and infrastructure evolution as they scale their product and customer base. They are looking for a Platform Engineer to help build and improve the foundations that engineering teams rely on. This role sits at the centre of engineering, with a clear focus on scalability, reliability and developer experience.
What you will be doing:
- Designing and improving cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS)
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Supporting containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Driving improvements in system reliability, monitoring and observability
- Working closely with engineering teams to improve deployment and release processes
What they are looking for:
- Strong experience in AWS (or similar cloud platforms)
- Proven background in DevOps or platform engineering roles
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation or similar)
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and automation
- Experience working in modern engineering environments
Nice to have:
- Experience in high-scale or high-availability systems
- Exposure to security best practices (DevSecOps)
- Experience improving developer experience at scale
Why this role:
- Opportunity to shape platform and infrastructure strategy
- Work that directly impacts engineering velocity and product delivery
- A business investing heavily in modern engineering practices