DevOps Engineer

DevOps Contract

Rate: £625 per day (Inside IR35)

Fully Remote

6 Months, likely extension.

Real need: A senior that has experience leading from a technical POV, good up-skilling of team, good stakeholder relations.

Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS cloud services including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, and security groups.
• Expertise in Cloudflare configuration and management, including DNS, security, and performance features.
• Hands-on experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and maintaining code repositories (preferably GitHub).
• Track record of designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Experience building observability and metrics solutions for distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong problem-solving ability and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Snowflake data warehousing, including integration, automation, and data pipeline deployment.
• Exposure to ML Ops practices, including deploying and maintaining machine learning models in production environments.
• Familiarity with security and SecOps tools, such as vulnerability scanners, security incident management, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience with additional IaC or configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet) is a plus.
• Understanding of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) for automation.
• Prior contractor or consulting experience in a DevOps capacity.

Core Competencies:

• Autonomy and accountability in delivering project milestones and deliverables.
• Adaptability to fast-paced environments and evolving requirements.
• Collaborative mindset with a focus on knowledge sharing and teamwork.
• Commitment to security and operational excellence.