Remote DevOps Engineer - 3-Month Contract (Outside IR35)

TwinStream Limited; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

TwinStream Limited is seeking a DevOps Engineer (contract outside of IR35) to join a remote delivery team working on a cross‑domain system built with AMQP event‑driven microservices and Docker containers. You will maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments and ensure observability and SLA/SLO compliance in a managed service environment.

Ideal candidates have hands‑on experience with infrastructure automation (CloudFormation, Terraform or Ansible), Docker orchestration, AWS, monitoring tools,

Qualifications

• Experience in infrastructure automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform or Ansible).
• Experience with docker containers & container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm).
• Experience using and maintaining CI/CD tools (Jenkins or GitHub actions).
• Good understanding of relational databases and SQL.
• Linux command line, administration and shell scripting.
• Solid understanding of monitoring, auto-scaling, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery best practices.
• Working knowledge of network security protocols.
• Working knowledge of AWS.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB , Prometheus or Grafana.
• Experience of working in a managed service environment.
• Experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda).
• Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution).
• Knowledge of cross domain principles & technologies.
• Industry experience writing well-tested code in one of our platform languages (Java, Go, Python or similar).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Feature Development teams to promote new component versions into production as efficiently as possible.
• Maintain the system to agreed service level and availability objectives using real-time monitoring tools and system generated metrics.
• Instrumentation of new system metrics and alerts to pre-empt issues and improve performance.
• Respond to monitoring alerts and customer incidents, taking preventative/remedial action to minimise customer impact.
• Liaising with key customer stakeholders to schedule capability changes and capture new service requirements as they arise.
• Apply automation techniques to reduce manual operations burden.

Skills

Infrastructure automation

Docker containers

CI/CD tools

Relational databases & SQL

Linux CLI & scripting

Monitoring & performance

Network security

AWS

Monitoring tools (InfluxDB/Prometheus)

Managed service environment

Cloud hosting services (AWS EC2/RDS/S3

MQ messaging (RabbitMQ/AMQP)

Cross-domain technologies

Java/Go/Python

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker Swarm

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

TwinStream Limited is seeking a DevOps Engineer (contract outside of IR35) to join a remote delivery team working on a cross‑domain system built with AMQP event‑driven microservices and Docker containers. You will maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments and ensure observability and SLA/SLO compliance in a managed service environment.

Ideal candidates have hands‑on experience with infrastructure automation (CloudFormation, Terraform or Ansible), Docker orchestration, AWS, monitoring tools,