Lead DevOps Engineer
Contract: DevOps & Automation Engineer
- Rate: Up to £650 Per Day
- Contract Type: Outside IR35
- Duration: 12 months
- Sector: London Markets Insurer
A leading organisation in a regulated industry is seeking an experienced DevOps & Automation Engineer to support the delivery of modern DevOps practices and automation initiatives. The role focuses on improving CI/CD, environment management, and automation capabilities, with an emphasis on ephemeral environments, scalable platforms, and self-service tooling.
You will work closely with delivery, engineering, and operations teams to support projects, modernise tooling, and drive automation across the technology estate.
Key Technologies & Tools
- Experience with a selection of the following is desirable:
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
- CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy
- Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes
- Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry
- Automation & Low-Code Platforms: Power Automate, UiPath
- Windows and Linux environments
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the delivery of a DevOps and automation roadmap, with a focus on ephemeral environments and advanced automation approaches.
- Collaborate with delivery and engineering teams to understand upcoming work and identify DevOps and automation requirements.
- Plan, prioritise, and deliver DevOps-related project tasks, providing regular progress updates.
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and environment management solutions.
- Develop and maintain documentation, runbooks, and knowledge articles for deployments and troubleshooting.
- Manage configuration, release, and environment processes across multi-tier systems.
- Support application, service, and database deployments across Windows and Linux-based platforms.
- Drive high levels of end-to-end automation using reusable, auditable components, with appropriate human oversight.
- Build self-service automation capabilities to enable teams to operate and manage their own processes.
- Enhance observability and monitoring to provide insight into system health, deployments, and performance.
- Embed security and compliance into pipelines and automation, ensuring traceability and auditability.
- Support continuous improvement by exploring new tools, platforms, and automation techniques.
- Coordinate environment refreshes, planned outages, and release activities with wider delivery teams.
- Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Provide support and guidance to other team members on DevOps-related activities.
- Engage with third-party vendors where required.
Reasonable Adjustments:
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