DevOps Lead/Consultant
Posted Today by Jobserve
£800 Per day
Inside
Onsite
West Drayton
Summary: The role of Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer involves joining a high-impact delivery team to support a major transformation program within a complex enterprise environment. The position requires a hands-on approach to DevOps practices, focusing on improving platform reliability and driving implementation of CI/CD and automation. The engineer will collaborate with various stakeholders to enhance DevOps maturity and streamline delivery processes. This is a contract position based in Heathrow, requiring three days of on-site work per week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Owning day-to-day DevOps and platform delivery within the squad
- Driving implementation of CI/CD, automation, infrastructure standards, and operational best practices
- Supporting and guiding engineers through technical delivery and issue resolution
- Building and improving reusable infrastructure templates and deployment patterns
- Improving platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, observability, and proactive maintenance
- Supporting security remediation, environment hardening, and governance requirements
- Working across architecture, cyber, and delivery teams to remove blockers and maintain momentum
- Creating clear documentation, operational standards, and repeatable DevOps processes
- Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, cost management, and platform performance
Key Skills:
- 13+ years' experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles
- Strong hands-on AWS experience across IAM, networking, ECS/EKS, Terraform, and CloudFormation
- Strong Infrastructure as Code and automation capability
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Datadog and CloudWatch
- Strong understanding of patching, security controls, compliance, and operational governance
- Ability to troubleshoot complex platform challenges and make pragmatic delivery decisions
- Excellent stakeholder management and written communication skills
Salary (Rate): £800/day
City: Heathrow
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer - Crew Technology
Contract | £800/day (Inside IR35) | 6-12 months | Heathrow (3 days per week)
We're supporting a major transformation programme within a complex enterprise environment and are looking for a senior hands-on DevOps/Platform Engineer to join a high-impact delivery team.
This is not a traditional management role. We're looking for someone who enjoys being close to the technology, solving delivery challenges directly, and helping teams establish scalable and reliable platform practices.
You'll work across engineering, security, and business stakeholders to improve DevOps maturity, simplify ways of working, and drive platform delivery across a critical technology function.
What you'll be doing
- Owning day-to-day DevOps and platform delivery within the squad
- Driving implementation of CI/CD, automation, infrastructure standards, and operational best practices
- Supporting and guiding engineers through technical delivery and issue resolution
- Building and improving reusable infrastructure templates and deployment patterns
- Improving platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, observability, and proactive maintenance
- Supporting security remediation, environment hardening, and governance requirements
- Working across architecture, cyber, and delivery teams to remove blockers and maintain momentum
- Creating clear documentation, operational standards, and repeatable DevOps processes
- Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, cost management, and platform performance
What we're looking for
- 13+ years' experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles
- Strong hands-on AWS experience across IAM, networking, ECS/EKS, Terraform, and CloudFormation
- Strong Infrastructure as Code and automation capability
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Datadog and CloudWatch
- Strong understanding of patching, security controls, compliance, and operational governance
- Ability to troubleshoot complex platform challenges and make pragmatic delivery decisions
- Excellent stakeholder management and written communication skills
Ideal background
- Experience operating within large-scale enterprise or transformation environments
- Previous consulting experience highly valued (MBB or strategy/transformation consulting experience particularly relevant)
- Experience influencing across multiple teams and driving standardisation
- Leadership experience beneficial but not essential
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