DevOps Engineer - AWS or Azure
Summary
Contract senior DevOps engineer/consultant building and maintaining large-scale Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms in enterprise environments: CI/CD pipelines (GitLab), Terraform IaC, Linux automation, monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, and cloud migrations. Up to £350/day; active UK SC clearance required; hybrid across UK delivery hubs.
Senior DevOps Engineer / DevOps Consultant | Contract | Azure & AWS Cloud Platforms
We're supporting multiple DevOps opportunities focused on building, enhancing and supporting large-scale cloud platforms within complex enterprise environments.
These roles are ideal for engineers who thrive on automation, infrastructure as code, platform engineering and cloud-native delivery. You'll work closely with product and engineering teams to design, build and maintain resilient, scalable platforms while driving DevOps best practices, CI/CD adoption and operational excellence.
You'll be expected to take ownership of technical challenges, contribute to platform strategy, mentor engineers and help shape the future direction of cloud infrastructure and data platforms.
Core Skills Required
- DevOps Engineering
- CI/CD Pipeline Development
- Terraform
- GitLab CI/CD
- Azure and/or AWS
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Linux / Unix Administration
- Scripting & Automation
- Agile Delivery (Scrum / Kanban)
- Monitoring & Observability
- Platform Engineering
Azure Data Platform Experience
- Azure
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- Azure Data Lake
- Databricks
- Kafka & Kafka Connect
- Prometheus
- Grafana
AWS Platform Experience
- AWS
- EC2
- ECS
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Cloud Migration
- Infrastructure Automation
What You'll Be Doing
- Building and maintaining cloud infrastructure platforms
- Developing and optimising CI/CD pipelines
- Implementing Infrastructure as Code solutions
- Supporting highly available and resilient services
- Automating operational processes wherever possible
- Troubleshooting complex platform and infrastructure issues
- Working with engineering teams to improve delivery practices
- Supporting cloud migrations and platform modernisation initiatives
- Mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practicesContributing to proof of concepts, technical evaluations and innovation initiatives
Locations
- Leeds
- Manchester
- Newcastle
- Sheffield
- Blackpool
- London (on some assignments)
- Hybrid working with travel to UK delivery hubs as required
Clearance
- Active SC Clearance required
Rates
- Up to £350/day
Current Opportunities
- Azure DevOps Consultant
- AWS Senior DevOps Engineer
Immediate starts available.