Contract: Senior/Lead DevOps & Automation Engineer

• Rate: Up to £650 Per Day
• Contract Type: Outside IR35
• Duration: 12 months Initial + Extensions
• Sector: London Markets Insurer
• Location: Hybrid - 2-3 Days Per Week in Central London

A leading organisation in a regulated industry is seeking an experienced DevOps & Automation Engineer to support the delivery of modern DevOps practices and automation initiatives. The role focuses on improving CI/CD, environment management, and automation capabilities, with an emphasis on ephemeral environments, scalable platforms, and self-service tooling.

You will work closely with delivery, engineering, and operations teams to support projects, modernise tooling, and drive automation across the technology estate.

Key Technologies & Tools

• Experience with a selection of the following is desirable:
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy
• Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes
• Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry
• Automation & Low-Code Platforms: Power Automate, UiPath
• Windows and Linux environments

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the delivery of a DevOps and automation roadmap, with a focus on ephemeral environments and advanced automation approaches.
• Collaborate with delivery and engineering teams to understand upcoming work and identify DevOps and automation requirements.
• Plan, prioritise, and deliver DevOps-related project tasks, providing regular progress updates.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and environment management solutions.
• Develop and maintain documentation, runbooks, and knowledge articles for deployments and troubleshooting.
• Manage configuration, release, and environment processes across multi-tier systems.
• Support application, service, and database deployments across Windows and Linux-based platforms.
• Drive high levels of end-to-end automation using reusable, auditable components, with appropriate human oversight.
• Build self-service automation capabilities to enable teams to operate and manage their own processes.
• Enhance observability and monitoring to provide insight into system health, deployments, and performance.
• Embed security and compliance into pipelines and automation, ensuring traceability and auditability.
• Support continuous improvement by exploring new tools, platforms, and automation techniques.
• Coordinate environment refreshes, planned outages, and release activities with wider delivery teams.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide support and guidance to other team members on DevOps-related activities.
• Engage with third-party vendors where required.