Infrastructure Engineer / DevX Build Engineer

Experis - ManpowerGroup; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to optimize CI/CD processes and manage Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. The role requires expertise in Kubernetes, GCP, and Python, with responsibilities including troubleshooting performance issues and implementing CI/CD pipelines. The position is hybrid, requiring some onsite presence in Birmingham, Sheffield, or Edinburgh, and offers a daily rate of £585 inside IR35.

Qualifications

• Expert Kubernetes internals: networking, scheduling, controllers.
• Expert GCP services: GKE, Cloud Build, IAM.
• Strong Python skills required for performance profiling.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve performance issues in Kubernetes.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Optimize build, test, and deployment workflows.

Skills

Kubernetes internals

GCP services

Performance troubleshooting

Infrastructure-as-code

Observability stack

Python

Jenkins

Tekton

Containerization

Git workflows

Compliance Awareness

Precise communicator

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Job Title

Infrastructure Engineer DevX Build_Engineer

Location

Hybrid 60% office-40% home - Sheffield/Birmingham/Edinburgh

Duration

Until 30/11/2026

Rate

£585 per day Inside IR35

Employment details

MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA

Role Description

"DevX Build Engineer Job Description - with Cloud experience - UK Job Title: DevOps Engineer (UK)"

Location: Sheffield/Birmingham/Edinburgh (3 days onsite is mandatory)

Overview: Seeking an experienced senior engineer to own and optimize CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and application performance. Focus on Python, Kubernetes workloads, and GCP platform reliability.

Core Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve performance issues across Kubernetes clusters (networking, autoscaling, resource tuning).
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Tekton.
• Optimize build, test, and deployment workflows (artifact strategy, caching, security gates).
• Implement observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and performance dashboards.
• Manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) and environment provisioning in GCP.
• Enforce DevSecOps best practices (image hardening, secrets management, SBOM, scanning).
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and capacity planning.
• Mentor engineering teams on pipeline usage and operational excellence.

Essential Skills

• Expert Kubernetes internals (scheduler, controllers, pod lifecycle, RBAC, networking, ingress, HPA/VPA).
• Expert GCP services (GKE, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Pub/Sub, Cloud Logging/Monitoring, IAM).
• Performance troubleshooting (CPU/memory profiling, latency analysis, concurrency tuning).
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform modules, state management, policy enforcement).
• Observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, alert tuning).
• Strong Python (packages, virtual environments, dependency management, performance profiling).
• Strong Jenkins (shared libraries, pipelines-as-code) & Tekton (Tasks, Pipelines, Triggers).
• Containerization (Docker image optimization, multi-stage builds, runtime security).
• Git workflows (branching strategy, release tagging, code review automation).
• Compliance Awareness.
• Precise communicator with documentation discipline.

Soft Skills

Ownership mindset, able to operate with minimal supervision.

Deliverables (First 30 Days)

• Assess existing GCP and Kubernetes infrastructure and produce an optimization report focused on Jenkins OS and controller performance.
• Implement approved optimizations to stabilize Jenkins controllers and reduce risk of downtime.

Job Posting Dates

Job Posting Start Date: 26/01/2026
Job Posting End Date: 30/11/2026