AI DevOps Engineer - Glasgow

Square One Resources; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency seeks an experienced AI DevOps Engineer in Glasgow for a long-term contract. The role involves designing cloud infrastructure, managing container platforms, and automating provisioning. Ideal candidates will have strong experience with AWS and DevOps tools. This opportunity offers up to £350 per day, with a start date of November 24, 2025.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working with containers and Kubernetes in cloud environments.
• Proven experience using AWS CloudFormation or equivalent IaC tooling.
• Strong practical experience with CI/CD and DevOps tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain cloud infrastructure to support environments.
• Manage and optimise containerised platforms using Kubernetes.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git workflows.

Skills

Containers and Kubernetes

AWS CloudFormation

CI/CD and DevOps tools

Core AWS services (API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, etc.)

Cloud networking concepts (VPCs, subnets)

Linux servers

Tools

Jenkins

Bitbucket/Git

Nexus

Jira

Job description

Job Title: AI DevOps Engineer

Location: Glasgow (2-3 days on site)

Salary/Rate: Up to £350 per day Inside IR35

Start Date: 24/11/2025

Duration: 31/12/2026

Job Type: Contract (PAYE through umbrella)

Company introduction:

We have an exciting opportunity with a organisation undertaking a large-scale digital programme. They are seeking an experienced AI DevOps Engineer to join the team on a long-term contract.

Job responsibilities / objectives:

• Design, implement and maintain cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) to support production and non-production environments.
• Manage and optimise containerised platforms using Kubernetes, ECS/EKS and related tooling.
• Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and Git workflows.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using AWS CloudFormation and other infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Monitor platform health, troubleshoot production issues and implement improvements for resilience and scalability.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure smooth deployments, observability and secure configurations for APIs and microservices.

Required skills / experience:

• Proven experience working with containers and Kubernetes in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Proven experience using AWS CloudFormation (or equivalent IaC tooling) to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Strong practical experience with CI/CD and DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket/Git, Nexus and Jira.
• Hands-on experience of core AWS services - for example API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, ELB, EC2 and RDS (experience with Oracle RDS is advantageous).
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts (VPCs, subnets, routing, peering, firewalls).
• Comfortable working with Linux servers and familiar with Java-based applications, APIs and microservices.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer: Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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