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DevOps Engineer - Contract
£47,000 - 76,000
Morgan McKinley Group Ltd
Fetter Lane 15, South East London
£47,000 - 76,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform (modular infrastructure preferred)
- Solid experience with AWS (IAM, networking, core services)
- Experience troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines
- Background in DevOps / Platform Engineering roles
- Strong problem-solving and incident triage skills
- Experience with Amazon Kinesis or other streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka) is desirable
- Exposure to monitoring and alerting tools
- Experience working in complex, integrated environments
- Awareness of performance optimization (e.g. latency improvements)
Responsibilities
- Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform
- Support environment setup, configuration, and readiness
- Manage IAM roles, networking, and secure access controls
- Handle secrets, certificates, and platform configuration
- Support provisioning and maintenance of AWS services
- Work with event streaming solutions (Kinesis or similar)
- Assist with architectural decisions where required
- Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline issues (build failures, vulnerabilities, artefact issues)
- Support and improve CI/CD pipelines for feature-level deployments
- Ensure reliable and repeatable deployment processes
- Investigate and triage platform issues and failures
- Perform root cause analysis and coordinate with relevant teams
- Unblock infrastructure-related issues impacting delivery
- Support monitoring and alerting for platform services
- Work with Ops teams to ensure high availability and reliability
- Contribute to ongoing platform stability improvements
- Support integration with upstream/downstream systems
- Assist with performance testing (including latency improvements where required)
- Contribute reusable components, utilities, and best practices
- Provide documentation and handover to operations teams
Description
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer with strong experience in Terraform and Amazon Web Services to support the build, deployment, and ongoing operation of our cloud-based platform. This part-time contract role involves working 2 days per week onsite in London, starting ASAP, with a competitive rate of £350/day (Inside IR35). You will join a collaborative team focusing on infrastructure, environment support, and CI/CD reliability, while gaining exposure to event streaming technologies such as Amazon Kinesis.
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The company with most openings is Experis as they are hiring for 110 different DevOps jobs in the UK. They are probably quite committed to find good DevOps.