DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer (Outside IR35 contract) - Fully remote - 600 - 700/day - GCP, Kubernetes

Join a venture-backed Series A technology startup that is transforming pharmaceutical Research and Development (R&D). They leverage AI-powered data science and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to extract, structure, and organize knowledge from millions of scientific documents.

Their mission is to help bioinformaticians and biologists uncover hidden insights and accelerate drug discovery, making the R&D process faster, more efficient, and scientifically grounded. They're a team of exceptional scientists and software engineers working in a supportive, ego-free environment.

They are searching for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer on a contract basis to provide critical, hands-on support for our core platform and infrastructure, enabling our rapid pace of innovation.

DevOps Engineer Key Responsibilities

The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for providing immediate, high-impact support across their infrastructure and platform engineering needs, specifically focusing on:

• Platform Reliability: Maintenance and troubleshooting of our Continuous Integration (CI) system to ensure improved reliability and automation of existing CI/CD pipelines.
• Automation & Integration: Enhancing and automating deployment pipelines and tackling key systems integration challenges (e.g., Hashicorp Vault , GitLab Runners ).
• Security Posture: Strengthening IAM (Identity and Access Management) systems and processes.
• Technical Debt: Proactively reducing accumulated technical debt and identifying automation gaps for pragmatic implementation of new efficiencies.
• Team Collaboration: Collaborating with existing teams to resolve performance bottlenecks and documenting infrastructure implementations for future continuity.

Skills & Experience Required for the DevOps Engineer:

The ideal candidate is a proactive self-starter who can quickly adapt to an existing scale-up environment and deliver outcomes under time constraints. You will be expected to have:

• Proven, extensive experience in Infrastructure, DevOps , and Platform Engineering within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment.
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes , IAM , Hashicorp Vault , and GitLab CI/CD systems.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate and automate systems at scale in production environments.
• Familiarity with documentation best practices and configuration management.
• Excellent communication, collaboration skills, and a proven track record of pragmatic problem-solving.

Ready to enable next-generation drug discovery through robust platform engineering?

If you are an experienced DevOps Enginer ready to make a significant, measurable impact on a company built by biomedical and data science experts, we want to hear from you. Please apply!

DevOps Engineer (Outside IR35 contract) - Fully remote - 600 - 700/day - GCP, Kubernetes