Senior DevOps Engineer - #2195096

Senior DevOps Engineer (x2)

Location: Hybrid, about 60% on site at one of these hubs: Leeds, Manchester, Blackpool, Newcastle, Sheffield or Birmingham

Contract: 12 months

IR35: Inside IR35 (PAYE or approved umbrella)

Pay Rate to Candidate: £650 Umbrella / £476.81 PAYE

About the role

We’re looking for two Senior DevOps Engineers to join a large-scale digital programme with a major UK organisation. You’ll design, build and maintain automated cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You’ll work closely with engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable and scalable services. The chosen candidate will have industry experience within Central Government or Public Sector.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing and delivering infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Building, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines in GitLab
• Writing and managing reusable, well-structured Terraform modules
• Working with development teams to improve how they release and run their services
• Promoting good engineering practice, automation and continuous improvement
• Fixing infrastructure and deployment problems in cloud environments

Essential skills and experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code
• A solid software or infrastructure engineering background
• Extensive experience with Terraform
• Proven experience building and managing GitLab pipelines

Desirable

• Networking knowledge
• A cloud computing qualification (e.g. AWS, Azure or GCP certification)
• Experience on public sector programmes
• Cloud deployment experience across AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud

Security

SC clearance is preferred, but candidates with BPSS are welcome to apply. You’ll need to be eligible to undergo SC clearance.