DevOps Engineer

undisclosed; Croydon; On-site; GBP 132,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

undisclosed is seeking a Senior Engineer for a contract role in the Croydon area, running until 30/04/2027. The position offers a daily rate of up to £828 and requires SC eligibility. You will work within an agile product team, leading complex tasks while mentoring junior engineers.

Required experience includes CI/CD, Docker, and production incident management with RCA. Active SC is preferred, and Jenkins/Git/Jira/Confluence are desirable tools to manage pipelines and collaboration.

Qualifications

• SC clearance required or eligible (Active SC desired).
• Contract role until 30/04/2027.
• Experience leading complex tasks in an agile, product-team environment (GDS PLM).
• Experience in production incident resolution and RCA.

Responsibilities

• Lead on complex development tasks within an agile team.
• Coach junior engineers and drive best practices.
• Define and work with product-team processes (GDS PLM).
• Resolve incidents in production and perform RCA and controlled changes.

Skills

CI/CD

Senior leadership

Product-team collaboration

Non-functional requirements

Incident response / RCA

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

Git

Jira

Confluence

Keycloak

Terraform

Python

Job description

Duration: contract to run until 30/04/2027

Rate: up to £828 p/d Umbrellainside IR35

Clearance required: SC eligibility is required. Active SC is desired

Skills:

• Working within an agile context with the use of CI/CD
• Experience as a Senior Engineer, able to lead on complex tasks while coaching/mentoring more junior members of the team.
• Working within a product team, using a product way of working (eg, GDS PLM)
• Experience with defining and working with the constraint of NFRs such as cost, scalability, availability
• Experience working in a production environment to resolve incidents, make controlled changes and perform RCA and defect resolution

Must have:

• Docker

Nice to have:

• Experience Administering Jenkins, and maintaining shared pipelines and libraries
• Collaboration tools (Git, Jira, Confluence, etc.), Experience administering collaborating tools is a plus.
• Keycloak (or other OIDCs)
• Terraform
• Python (or equivalent scripting technologies like Go)

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!