DevOps Engineer

Staff / Senior DevOps Engineer | 6-Month (Outside IR35) | £600 - 800 Per/Day | 3 Days per Week (London) Burns Sheehan are working with a fast-growing robotics scale-up who are delivering a key customer project with a major milestone due March 2025. To hit this, they’re bringing in experienced contractors who can make an immediate impact. As the Staff / Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll be responsible for building and running pipelines, driving infrastructure automation, and ensuring deployment reliability. This is a hands-on role requiring someone comfortable working at pace, with low ramp-up and high autonomy. In this role you’ll need strong experience with: • Cloud infrastructure exposure (AWS ideally but happy with GCP / Azure), • CI/CD design and ownership, including release automation and rollback strategies • Docker (containers, registries, environment promotion across development / product) • Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible) and cloud provisioning • Monitoring, alerting, and cost awareness It would also be useful if you have: • Experience with security in pipelines (SAST/DAST, SBOM) • Exposure to wider platform / DevOps tooling Traits we’re looking for: • Strong bias to action, able to diagnose and resolve blockers independently • Comfortable in a high-pace scale-up/start-up environment • Collaborative, working closely with engineers on-site This is an initial 6-month contract (Outside IR35) with high likelihood of extension (9–12 months) and the potential to convert to permanent for high performers. Staff / Senior DevOps Engineer | 6-Month (Outside IR35) | £600 - 800 Per/Day | 3 Days per Week (London)