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Lorien

DevOps Engineer - Terraform

On site

London, United kingdom

Freelance

09-12-2025

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Skills

Python Cassandra Incident Response Splunk GitLab CI/CD DevOps Docker Kubernetes Monitoring Networking AWS Google Cloud Platform GCP CI/CD Pipelines Terraform Grafana Infrastructure as Code

Job Specifications

DevOps Engineer
Hybrid Working - Edinburgh OR London - 2 days a week on site.
Financial Services
Lorien's leading banking client is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join them.
Take a hands-on lead role in designing, implementing, and optimising secure, scalable AWS infrastructure to support cloud-native applications. Champion DevOps best practices, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate across functions to drive automation, reliability, and operational excellence.
This role is based in Edinburgh OR London.
This role will be Via Umbrella.
Working in a Hybrid Model of 2 days a week on site.
Key Experience
Architect and manage AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Lead the hands-on development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and ArgoCD.
Design and operate containerised workloads with EKS, Fargate, and Kubernetes.
Manage Kubernetes deployments using Helm charts.
Implement observability solutions using OpenTelemetry (OTel), Grafana, and Splunk.
Optimise infrastructure with Karpenter for autoscaling and cost efficiency.
Ensure robust AWS networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Route 53) and enforce security best practices.
Drive incident response, monitoring, and performance tuning.
Key Technologies:
AWS (EKS, Fargate, EC2, S3)
Terraform
CloudFormation
GitLab
ArgoCD
Docker
Kubernetes
Helm
Cassandra
OTel
Grafana
Splunk
Karpenter
Python
Desirable: Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Apigee Hybrid, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
IND_PC3
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

About the Company

Lorien is a technology, transformation and telecom talent solutions specialist. We combine tech expertise with the scope, depth and breadth of large-scale talent solutions. Driven by both clients and candidates, covering Europe and the US, we work with all sectors, sizes and tech needs – from start-up to established, tech companies and those who use tech to propel them further - we work with them all. Our unique position in the market means we have the insight to create tailored solutions – keeping our clients ahead of t... Know more