DevOps Engineer
Posted 5 days ago by Sanderson Recruitment Plc
£514 Per day
Inside
Onsite
London, UK
Summary: The role of DevOps Engineer involves designing, building, and operating CI/CD platforms in a mixed environment of containers and VMs. The position requires a focus on Jenkins-based CI, automation, and code quality integration to facilitate fast and stable delivery for engineering teams. The role is based in London with a requirement of one day per week on-site and is classified as inside IR-35. The contract is for an initial duration of 12 months.
Key Responsibilities:
- Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and shared CI platforms
- Automating configuration, builds and environment provisioning
- Integrating code quality, security and compliance tools
- Managing build agents across Kubernetes and VM environments
- Supporting developers with reliable, high-performance build processes
- Troubleshooting CI and automation issues and documenting platforms and runbooks
Key Skills:
- CI/CD engineering with Jenkins (pipelines, shared libraries, PR workflows, credentials management)
- Automation with Ansible and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Docker or Podman, plus Kubernetes fundamentals and running CI workloads on cluster agents
- Git-based workflows, Jira/Confluence use, and integration with CI systems
- AWS Cloud experience is essential
Salary (Rate): £514 daily
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
DevOps Engineer
£514/day Inside IR-35 for an initial 12 months
SC role
London - 1 day per week on site
We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to design, build and operate reliable CI/CD platforms across a mix of container and VM environments. You'll focus on Jenkins-based CI, automation, code quality integration and enabling fast, stable delivery for engineering teams.
Key technical skills:
- CI/CD engineering with Jenkins (pipelines, shared libraries, PR workflows, credentials management)
- Automation with Ansible and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Docker or Podman, plus Kubernetes fundamentals and running CI workloads on cluster agents
- Git-based workflows, Jira/Confluence use, and integration with CI systems
- AWS Cloud experience is essential
What you'll be doing:
- Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and shared CI platforms
- Automating configuration, builds and environment provisioning
- Integrating code quality, security and compliance tools
- Managing build agents across Kubernetes and VM environments
- Supporting developers with reliable, high-performance build processes
- Troubleshooting CI and automation issues and documenting platforms and runbooks
You'll bring solid problem solving skills, clear communication, and the ability to take ownership of platforms end to end while balancing speed and stability.
Reasonable Adjustments:
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