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Role: DevOps Engineer
IR35 Status: Outside IR35
Day Rate: Competitive (DOE)
Location: Remote with Ad Hoc UK Travel
Contract Length: 3 Months (highly likely to extend to 6 Months+)
Start Date: Immediate
Overview
We’re hiring a DevOps Engineer to support the infrastructure, automation, and deployment of a strategic platform for the UK Central Government. The project is underpinned by modern DevOps and infrastructure-as-code practices, with a focus on AWS but also supporting some workloads in Azure.
As a key contributor, you’ll help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the platform, from code commit through to production deployment. This is a hands-on, delivery-led role ideal for DevOps professionals who enjoy building efficient pipelines and enabling high-performing engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform, predominantly in AWS.
- Support the delivery and automation of infrastructure changes across environments using Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
- Design, manage, and optimise GitHub Actions pipelines, including YAML-based build and release definitions.
- Implement and support containerised deployments using Docker and ECS, ensuring alignment with microservices principles.
- Set up and manage load balancing, scaling, and orchestration patterns to support high-availability services.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues across cloud environments and collaborate with developers to resolve blockers.
- Monitor and improve platform performance, availability, and cost-efficiency.
- Ensure infrastructure is aligned with internal security, compliance, and resilience standards.
Required Technical Experience
- Proven experience delivering infrastructure and automation solutions on AWS (primary cloud), with some knowledge of Azure.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Advanced knowledge of GitHub Actions, Git, and CI/CD processes.
- Experience with Docker, container orchestration, and hosting containers on AWS ECS.
- Familiarity with infrastructure monitoring, logging, and scaling patterns in cloud-native environments.
- Comfortable scripting and working with YAML and CLI tools.
- Understanding of DevSecOps principles and secure-by-design cloud patterns.
Ways of Working & Stakeholder Engagement
- Ability to work independently while closely supporting the broader development team.
- Comfortable collaborating with developers, architects, and project stakeholders to translate needs into technical delivery.
- Proactive in identifying infrastructure risks or inefficiencies and recommending improvements.
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams with shared ownership of outcomes.
- Strong communication and documentation skills – able to articulate trade-offs and operational risks to a broad audience.
This role is ideal for an experienced DevOps Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, thrives in delivery-led environments, and is motivated by the opportunity to work on high-profile government platforms.
Apply now to join a high-performing team and make a tangible impact on a critical national platform.
