Rate: £400/day (Inside IR35)

Contract: 6 months (extendable)

Location: Remote

Interview: 12 stages

Overview My client is supporting its public body on large-scale, mission-critical digital services. Were looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer to strengthen delivery, reliability and security across cloud-native platforms and CI/CD pipelines.

Key Responsibilities Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines (build, test, deploy, release automation).

Implement IaC for repeatable, secure environments (prod/non-prod).

Operate and optimise Kubernetes/Docker-based services (scalability, reliability, cost).

Improve observability (logging, metrics, tracing), SRE practices and incident response.

Embed DevSecOps: secrets management, policy-as-code, vulnerability remediation.

Collaborate with developers, architects and security on delivery best practices.

Produce documentation/runbooks; contribute to standards and governance.

Must-Have Skills Cloud: AWS (core services, networking, IAM, cost-aware design).

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred).

IaC: Terraform (modules, workspaces, state management), Ansible.

CI/CD: GitLab CI or similar (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps), artifact/versioning.

Scripting: Bash and/or Python for automation.

OS & Networking: Linux, DNS, VPC/Subnets, Security Groups, load balancers.

Observability: Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Opensearch, CloudWatch.

Security: Secrets management (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager/HashiCorp Vault), vulnerability scanning (Snyk/Trivy), policy-as-code (OPA/Conftest).

Nice-to-Have GitOps (Argo CD / Flux) and Helm charts.

Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) or advanced networking policies.

Compliance in UK public sector (NCSC cloud principles), Well-Architected.

Experience on large government programmes.

Deliverables Stable, secure CI/CD pipelines and IaC baselines.

Kubernetes platform improvements (scaling, reliability, cost).

Observability dashboards and actionable alerts.

Runbooks and documentation for operations and incident management.

What Were Looking For Pragmatic, delivery-focused engineer with strong collaboration skills.

Comfortable balancing speed, security and governance in public sector contexts.

Clear communicator; able to document and propose improvements.

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