Contract DevOps Engineer

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Base pay range

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Location: Remote (occasional travel to York, 1–2 times per month)

Start Date: Immediate

WRK digital is excited to partner with a well-known and trusted UK brand to recruit a skilled DevOps Engineer for a new contract opportunity. This is a fantastic chance to join a forward-thinking technology team focused on scalability, automation, and cloud infrastructure innovation.

We\’re looking for an experienced DevOps professional who can lead and support the build, deployment, and optimisation of cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines — primarily within an AWS environment. You will play a key role in ensuring infrastructure is robust, secure, and designed for scalability using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, with a strong emphasis on Terraform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS services and Terraform
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support application deployment and environment management
• Collaborate with development, data, and security teams to ensure efficient and secure infrastructure delivery
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring
• Ensure high availability, performance, and disaster recovery strategies are in place
• Monitor systems for performance and reliability issues, resolving incidents quickly and efficiently
• Advocate for DevOps best practices and continuous improvement within the team

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, ideally within a mid-to-large scale cloud environment
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS (e.g. EC2, S3, ECS, Lambda, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch)
• Solid experience writing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar
• Familiarity with containerisation tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes a plus)
• Knowledge of monitoring/logging tools (e.g. CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Location & Flexibility

This is a remote‑first contract role, with a requirement to attend meetings in York 1–2 times per month.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Information Technology and Engineering

Industries

Technology, Information and Media and Rail Transportation