DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer Remote - occasional travel to Croydon Initial 3-month contract (extensions likely) Up to £500 per day Inside IR35 Active SC clearance Are you an experienced DevOps Engineer looking to work on large-scale cloud infrastructure supporting critical public sector services? We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing delivery team responsible for maintaining, improving and automating secure cloud platforms running in AWS. You'll work with modern DevOps tooling and Kubernetes-based environments, helping to deliver reliable, scalable services used across major government programmes. This is an excellent opportunity to work on technically challenging projects where automation, cloud infrastructure and continuous improvement are at the heart of delivery. What You'll Be Doing Managing and supporting Kubernetes-based environments. Maintaining and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, including migration projects. Deploying applications into test and production environments. Building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. Managing AWS infrastructure including RDS, Lambda and S3. Supporting Docker and Helm deployments. Monitoring platform health using Grafana, Prometheus and Kibana. Managing Linux infrastructure. Administering secrets management and security certificates. Troubleshooting infrastructure, deployment and platform issues. Working closely with development and platform teams to improve automation and operational resilience. What We're Looking For You'll have strong experience across most of the following technologies: Kubernetes Docker Helm AWS Terraform Jenkins Linux Amazon RDS Bitbucket Grafana, Prometheus and Kibana CI/CD pipeline management and automation Infrastructure as Code Cloud platform supportExperience with Vault or similar secrets management tools and CI/CD migration projects would be highly advantageous