DevOps Engineer - Contract (Outside of IR35)

Pulselive; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a DevOps Engineer for a contract role to maintain platform operations. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Responsibilities include managing infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and troubleshooting production issues. This role offers a competitive daily rate of £400-500 and is based in London or Basingstoke.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine platform maintenance and apply security patches.
• Clean up legacy infrastructure components and maintain documentation.
• Standardise CI/CD pipeline configurations and troubleshoot failures.
• Investigate and resolve infrastructure issues.

Skills

Operating distributed systems at scale

Excellent communication skills

Working knowledge of databases and SQL

Infrastructure with AWS, Kubernetes & Terraform

Understanding of DNS, CI/CD workflows

Observability experience (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)

Development experience with object-oriented programming (e.g., Java)

Diligence and analytical skills

Proactive in contributing to success

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Overview

DevOps Engineer - (Contract - Outside of IR35)
Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
UK Based London or Basingstoke

Day Rate: £400-500 per day
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 3 months

Technologies in use

• AWS Services & Infrastructure (Control Tower, IAM, ECR, etc.)


• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)


• Containerised Systems (Docker, Kubernetes, Karpenter)


• Storage (EBS, S3)


• Security & Identity Management (IAM, SSO, VPN, Authentik)


• CI/CD & Deployment Automation (Bitbucket, GitLab, ArgoCD)


• Monitoring & Logging (Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Prometheus, UpTrends)


• Networking (Global Accelerator, TGW, WAF, VPN)


• Messaging (Kafka)


• Service Mesh (Linkerd)


• Databases & Data Stores (RDS, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL)


• Secrets & Credentials Management (Vault)


• Version & Package Management (Artifactory, Nexus)


• Code Quality & Security Analysis Tools (Sonar)

Key Responsibilities

• Routine Platform Maintenance
  
  
  
  • Apply security patches to infrastructure and services
  
  
  • Perform regular backups and validate backup integrity
  
  
  • Rotate SSL/TLS certificates and other secrets as required
  
  
  • Monitor platform health and apply basic remediations
  
  
  
  


• Infrastructure Hygiene & Upkeep
  
  
  
  • Clean up unused or legacy infrastructure components
  
  
  • Maintain and update internal runbooks and technical documentation
  
  
  
  


• CI/CD Pipeline Maintenance
  
  
  
  • Review and standardise pipeline configurations (GitLab, ArgoCD)
  
  
  • Troubleshoot and resolve basic build/deploy failures
  
  
  • Create reusable pipeline templates or automation scripts
  
  
  • Identify and automate routine tasks using scripting (e.g. Bash, Python)
  
  
  
  


• Investigation and Troubleshooting
  
  
  
  • Investigate and resolve back-end and infrastructure production issues
  
  
  • Troubleshoot technical issues or questions reported by customers
  
  
  
  

Key Skills

• Experience operating distributed systems at scale


• Excellent external and internal communication skills and team collaboration


• Working knowledge of databases and SQL


• Strong capability with infrastructure with AWS, Kubernetes & Terraform


• Good understanding of DNS, CI/CD workflows and infrastructure as code


• Observability experience (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)


• Development experience with object-oriented programming (e.g., Java)


• Diligence, quality-focused, and analytical skills


• Proactive in contributing to organisational success