SDET Engineer (DevOps / Core AI)
Up to: £500 per day, Outside IR35 | 6 months initial project | Hybrid (2 days on-site p/w, London)
Role Overview
The successful candidate will join our client's core engineering team, working directly with Data Engineering & AI teams to build and scale workflows across healthcare and life sciences. You'll help deliver enterprise-grade solutions for some of the world's largest pharmaceutical and medtech organisations, tackling complex data and workflow challenges with measurable business impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement automated testing frameworks (SDET).
- Develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
- Collaborate closely with AI Engineers and Data Engineers to deliver scalable solutions.
- Build, automate and support AI/ML and data platforms in AWS.
- Support deployment, monitoring and reliability of Agentic AI workflows.
Person Specification
- Hands-on AWS expertise.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
- Strong experience across DevOps, cloud infrastructure and automated testing.
- Good understanding of software testing, quality engineering and automation.
- Exposure to AI/LLM-based systems and modern data platforms.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment.
Client Feedback: Required Skills & Experience
- Strong SDET and QA automation background.
- Hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
- Commercial experience working within AWS environments.
- Experience supporting cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of software delivery, testing and deployment practices.
- Previous experience within regulated or enterprise environments (e.g. banking, financial services) desirable.
Ideal Candidate
- Able to discuss infrastructure, architecture and automation in depth.
- Confident working across development, testing and operations teams.
- Proactive, hands-on and technically curious.
- Comfortable operating in highly technical engineering environments.
Please reach out to Adam Akhtar for further information
SDET Engineer (contract) in London employer: Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd Careers
As a leading player in the public sector, we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and innovative work culture that empowers our employees to excel. With a strong focus on professional development, we offer numerous growth opportunities and support for continuous learning, ensuring that our team members are equipped to tackle complex challenges in data and analytics. Working remotely with flexible arrangements, you will be part of a dynamic environment that values your expertise and contributions, making it an excellent place for meaningful and rewarding employment.
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