DevOps Engineer
Summary
3-month contract DevOps Engineer in Newcastle (hybrid, 2 days/month onsite) supporting a major UK digital transformation programme, building secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure with Terraform IaC, CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling. Day rate up to £350.
Location: Newcastle – Hybrid, 2 days per month onsite
Contract: 3 months
Day Rate: Up to £350 per day
Start: ASAP
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a major UK digital transformation programme, supporting the design, build and improvement of secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
You will work across development and infrastructure teams to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments and Infrastructure as Code, helping to improve automation, deployment efficiency, security and platform reliability.
This is a hands-on technical role suited to someone with strong AWS, Terraform and CI/CD experience who is comfortable working across complex enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
- Build, test and optimise end-to-end CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployment processes.
- Support the reliability, availability and performance of development and production environments.
- Identify and resolve complex infrastructure and deployment issues.
- Work closely with development, engineering and wider technical teams to align infrastructure with project requirements.
- Improve automation and deployment processes to reduce operational risk and manual intervention.
- Provide technical guidance and contribute to key infrastructure and architecture decisions.
- Ensure security is embedded throughout infrastructure and deployment processes.
- 5+ years' commercial DevOps experience within complex environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure.
- Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform.
- Experience with tools such as CDK, Packer and Ansible.
- Strong scripting capability using Python and/or Shell scripting.
- Strong understanding of Git, branching strategies and source-control best practices.
- Experience configuring and managing GitLab runners.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure design, automation and deployment principles.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and work effectively across multiple technical teams.