DevOps Engineer

Newcastle upon Tyne Source: WhatJobs

Up to £350 per day

Location: Newcastle – Hybrid, 2 days per month onsite

Contract: 3 months

Day Rate: Up to £350 per day

Start: ASAP

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a major UK digital transformation programme, supporting the design, build and improvement of secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.

You will work across development and infrastructure teams to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments and Infrastructure as Code , helping to improve automation, deployment efficiency, security and platform reliability.

This is a hands-on technical role suited to someone with strong AWS, Terraform and CI/CD experience who is comfortable working across complex enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
Build, test and optimise end-to-end CI/CD pipelines .
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployment processes.
Support the reliability, availability and performance of development and production environments.
Identify and resolve complex infrastructure and deployment issues.
Work closely with development, engineering and wider technical teams to align infrastructure with project requirements.
Improve automation and deployment processes to reduce operational risk and manual intervention.
Provide technical guidance and contribute to key infrastructure and architecture decisions.
Ensure security is embedded throughout infrastructure and deployment processes.
5+ years' commercial DevOps experience within complex environments.
Strong hands-on experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure.
Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform .
Experience with tools such as CDK, Packer and Ansible .
Strong scripting capability using Python and/or Shell scripting .
Strong understanding of Git , branching strategies and source-control best practices.
Experience configuring and managing GitLab runners .
Strong understanding of infrastructure design, automation and deployment principles.
Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and work effectively across multiple technical teams.