DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer : Up to £300 per day Outside IR35 : Hybrid North East

A specialist technology company is seeking a DevOps Engineer for a 3-month contract to build out a scalable job orchestration and results platform across an existing compute cluster and customer-facing API.

Key Responsibilities as a DevOps Engineer:

• Extend Slurm cluster job scheduling via Docker and test AWS expansion

• Design and implement a big data storage layer for optimisation outputs (MongoDB or S3-backed)

• Augment REST API with endpoints for job submission, status, and results retrieval

• Integrate monitoring and logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)

• Extend Vue/Python dashboards and deliver IaC templates with full documentation

Skills & Key Requirements:

• Strong Slurm or equivalent job scheduler experience

• Deep Docker knowledge (Kubernetes a plus)

• Big data database design: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Hadoop/S3

• Python/Flask for API development

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform or Ansible

• Observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK

Contract Details:

• Day Rate: Up to £300.00 per day Outside IR35

• Contract Length: 3 months

• Location: North of England preferred, hybrid

• Start Date: ASAP

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