DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer Location: Remote (occasional travel to York, 1–2 times per month) Contract Length: 6 months IR35 Status: Outside IR35 Start Date: Immediate WRK digital is excited to partner with a well-known and trusted UK brand to recruit a skilled DevOps Engineer for a new contract opportunity. This is a fantastic chance to join a forward-thinking technology team focused on scalability, automation, and cloud infrastructure innovation. We're looking for an experienced DevOps professional who can lead and support the build, deployment, and optimisation of cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines — primarily within an AWS environment. You will play a key role in ensuring infrastructure is robust, secure, and designed for scalability using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, with a strong emphasis on Terraform. Key Responsibilities: • Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS services and Terraform • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support application deployment and environment management • Collaborate with development, data, and security teams to ensure efficient and secure infrastructure delivery • Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring • Ensure high availability, performance, and disaster recovery strategies are in place • Monitor systems for performance and reliability issues, resolving incidents quickly and efficiently • Advocate for DevOps best practices and continuous improvement within the team Key Skills & Experience: • Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, ideally within a mid-to-large scale cloud environment • Strong hands-on experience with AWS (e.g. EC2, S3, ECS, Lambda, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch) • Solid experience writing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform • Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar • Familiarity with containerisation tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes a plus) • Knowledge of monitoring/logging tools (e.g. CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK) • Strong scripting skills (e.g. Bash, Python) • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills Location & Flexibility: This is a remote-first contract role, with a requirement to attend meetings in York 1–2 times per month.