Senior DevOps Engineer - Contract

Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract) | Remote (Outside IR35)

We are supporting a global organisation undergoing a significant cloud, platform and automation transformation, and are looking to appoint an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer on a contract basis. This is a fully remote opportunity, working within a modern engineering function responsible for building and operating secure, scalable, cloud-native platforms across a complex international environment.

The Opportunity

This role sits at the heart of a cloud and platform engineering team, taking ownership of the CI/CD ecosystem that underpins application delivery, infrastructure provisioning and platform governance. You will play a pivotal role in driving infrastructure as code, automation, deployment standards and security controls, ensuring engineering teams can deliver quickly, consistently and securely.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines and deployment standards.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and related tooling.
• Support and enhance Kubernetes-based platforms and containerised workloads.
• Build reusable automation frameworks and GitHub Actions workflows.
• Implement security, compliance and policy controls across engineering pipelines.

Key Experience

• Proven commercial experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering or Cloud Engineering.
• Strong expertise with Cloud (minimum two of Azure, AWS, GCP), Terraform and modern CI/CD practices.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience.
• Experience implementing security and quality controls within engineering pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, automation and cloud governance.

If you are an experienced DevOps Engineer looking for your next contract assignment and enjoy building scalable, secure and highly automated cloud platforms, we'd be keen to hear from you.

Please get in touch for a confidential discussion.