DevOps Engineer

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This role is for a DevOps Engineer on a 4-month contract, paying £480/day. Key skills include Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and Azure DevOps. Experience in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines is essential. Remote work with occasional in-person collaboration is required.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
480
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🗓️ - Date discovered
September 3, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
3 to 6 months
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🏝️ - Location type
Remote
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📄 - Contract type
Inside IR35
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🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
London, England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Terraform #Kubernetes #Automation #Azure DevOps #Deployment #DevOps #Docker #Migration #Cloud #Scala #Azure
Role description
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