Skills

Incident Response CI/CD DevOps Kubernetes AWS AWS Cloud GCP Snowflake Databricks Terraform

Job Specifications

DevOps Engineer - Contract

6-month initial term

Outside IR35

London | Hybrid

A fast-growing business is looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer to take ownership of their AWS cloud environment and support delivery of a broader product and data roadmap. This is a contract role with strong potential for extension - the volume of work is growing and the right person will be needed well beyond the initial term.

This is a builder role, not a maintenance position. You'll be stepping into a partially built environment, stabilising it, improving its maturity, and supporting the launch of new AI-driven products.

The stack is AWS

Kubernetes on AWS for container orchestration
Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
Argo CD
Snowflake for data (under review vs. Databricks)
GCP used for rapid prototyping
AI tooling across the product ecosystem — including LLMs, workflow automation, and voice tech
Modern AI-assisted development tooling (e.g. Cursor)

What You'll Be Doing

Taking ownership of the AWS platform with no formal internal handover
Managing, improving, and scaling the existing cloud infrastructure
Supporting the build and deployment of new AI-based products
Helping shape incident response, support triage, and operational processes as the business matures
Contributing to security and compliance initiatives (SOC 2 live, ISO 27001 in progress)

Must-Haves

Strong AWS — this is the key filter, no exceptions
Kubernetes on AWS
Terraform
Argo CD / CI/CD pipeline experience
Comfortable in fast-moving, imperfect environments
Able to work independently without heavy structure

Nice-to-Haves

GCP exposure (secondary environment, not core)
DevSecOps experience — vulnerability management, platform hardening, compliance support
Snowflake or Databricks familiarity
Experience in consultancy or professional services environments

You need to have built a platform from scratch before. Come prepared to talk through that experience - what you built, the decisions you made, and how you'd approach it again. That track record is central to what we're assessing.

AI genuinely matters too. You don't need 15 years of AI experience, but you should be actively engaged with where AI tooling and AI-enabled product development are heading — and ideally have worked in an environment where AI tools are part of day-to-day delivery.

About the Company

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