Contract DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

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

Contract Length: 6 months

IR35 Status: Outside IR35

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)
• Strong scripting skills (e.g. Bash, Python)
• 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.