DevOps Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by Harnham
£480 Per day
Inside
Remote
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of DevOps Engineer involves supporting the evolution of cloud infrastructure and CI/CD capabilities for a digital business through a 4-month contract. The successful candidate will work within a cross-functional engineering team to drive platform automation, improve scalability, and ensure reliability using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker in Azure environments. Key responsibilities include building automated infrastructure, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and enforcing best practices in cloud governance. Hands-on expertise in relevant technologies and experience in complex environments are essential for this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code
- Lead the optimisation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and other tooling
- Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy containerised applications using Kubernetes and Docker
- Support migration and integration across Azure and internal platforms
- Monitor infrastructure performance and reliability, implementing automation and alerting as needed
- Drive cost optimisation and efficiency across cloud environments
- Enforce best practices around cloud governance, platform resilience, and DevOps standards
Key Skills:
- Strong experience as a DevOps Engineer or Platform Engineer in complex environments
- Hands-on with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly using Azure DevOps
- Strong cloud infrastructure knowledge across Azure
- Skilled in automating deployment workflows and enabling infrastructure-as-code
- Comfortable troubleshooting infrastructure issues across large-scale systems
- Experience supporting development teams and improving engineering velocity
Salary (Rate): £480.00/daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
DevOps Engineer - Contract Opportunity
We're partnering with a forward-thinking digital business looking for a DevOps Engineer to support the evolution of their cloud infrastructure and CI/CD capabilities. This is a 4 -month contract with a clear scope: help drive platform automation, improve scalability, and ensure reliability across cloud environments using best-in-class tooling. You'll be embedded within a cross-functional engineering team, contributing to the design, implementation, and optimisation of modern DevOps practices. The successful candidate will bring hands-on expertise across Terraform , Kubernetes , and Docker , with experience working in Azure environments. Exposure to Azure DevOps is also essential, as it forms part of their toolchain.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code
- Lead the optimisation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and other tooling
- Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy containerised applications using Kubernetes and Docker
- Support migration and integration across Azure and internal platforms
- Monitor infrastructure performance and reliability, implementing automation and alerting as needed
- Drive cost optimisation and efficiency across cloud environments
- Enforce best practices around cloud governance, platform resilience, and DevOps standards
Skills & Experience Required
- Strong experience as a DevOps Engineer or Platform Engineer in complex environments
- Hands-on with Terraform , Kubernetes , and Docker
- Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines , particularly using Azure DevOps
- Strong cloud infrastructure knowledge across Azure
- Skilled in automating deployment workflows and enabling infrastructure-as-code
- Comfortable troubleshooting infrastructure issues across large-scale systems
- Experience supporting development teams and improving engineering velocity
Contract Details
Length: 4 months (initial)
Day Rate: £480 a day
IR35: Inside IR35
Location: Remote with potential for occasional in-person collaboration