DevOps Engineer

Sphere Digital Recruitment; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 105,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

£500pd outside IR35

Job summary

Sphere Digital Recruitment is seeking a DevOps Consultant / Platform Engineer in London on a hybrid basis for an initial 6-month term, with start ASAP.

You will assess and improve the GCP architecture, design CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation, build observability tooling, and drive security, reliability and scalability across the platform while working autonomously to shape technical direction.

Qualifications

• Strong DevOps, Platform Engineering or Cloud Infrastructure experience.
• Proven Google Cloud Platform (GCP) expertise.
• Terraform and IaC expertise.
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Knowledge of monitoring, observability, logging and alerting tools.
• Cloud security and operational best practices.

Responsibilities

• Assessing and improving the existing GCP cloud architecture.
• Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Building monitoring, logging, alerting and observability capabilities.
• Improving platform reliability, scalability and operational resilience.
• Implementing cloud security best practices across infrastructure and deployments.
• Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Supporting engineering teams with platform strategy and operational improvements.
• Driving best practice across DevOps, cloud operations and platform engineering.
• Identifying operational bottlenecks and implementing scalable solutions.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

GCP

Terraform / IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Cloud Security

Production Scaling

Python

FastAPI

Autonomy

Technical Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Job description

An exciting technology business in London is looking for a DevOps Consultant / Platform Engineer to help scale its cloud infrastructure, deployment processes and operational capabilities as the platform enters its next phase of growth.

• Based in London
• Hybrid working
• 6 Months initially
• Start date: ASAP
• Up to £500pd Outside Ir35

The Job

As the DevOps Consultant, your responsibilities will include:

• Assessing and improving the existing GCP cloud architecture
• Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Building monitoring, logging, alerting and observability capabilities
• Improving platform reliability, scalability and operational resilience
• Implementing cloud security best practices across infrastructure and deployments
• Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Supporting engineering teams with platform strategy and operational improvements
• Driving best practice across DevOps, cloud operations and platform engineering
• Identifying operational bottlenecks and implementing scalable solutions

You

• Strong DevOps, Platform Engineering or Cloud Infrastructure experience
• Proven experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Knowledge of monitoring, observability, logging and alerting tools
• Strong cloud security and operational best practice experience
• Experience supporting and scaling production environments
• Python and FastAPI exposure beneficial
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, evolving environments
• Able to work autonomously and influence technical direction

Sphere is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications regardless of ethnic origin, race, religious beliefs, age, disability, gender or sexual orientation, and any other protected status as required by applicable law.

Sphere Digital Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.