Senior DevOps Engineer
Contract Type: 12-month
Location: Leeds (Hybrid - 40% office-based)
Rate: Up to £750 per day (Inside IR35)

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a highly collaborative team in a large public sector organisation. The successful candidate will act as a technical lead for a shared-services capability team within Working Age Services, bringing expert skills to develop, secure, and support cloud-based platforms and CI/CD processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead DevOps initiatives, emphasising Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) over manual processes.
• Design, implement, secure, and support Unix/Linux-based platforms (RHEL/CentOS preferred) and develop solutions using Bash, Python, or Go.
• Develop and support cloud platforms on AWS, ensuring robust and efficient service delivery.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI & Jenkins experience preferred).
• Design and execute best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Packer, CloudFormation, and Cloud-Init.

Essential Technical Skills:

• Proven experience in DevOps, with a strong background in CI/CD processes.
• Advanced skills in Unix/Linux platform management and automation using Scripting languages.
• Strong background in cloud-based application platforms, particularly AWS.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for scalable and secure environments.
• Demonstrated ability to work and lead effectively in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment.

Additional Technology Experience (Two or more of the following):

• Data Persistence: MongoDB/Atlas
• Messaging/Events Platforms: Kafka
• Observability Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Zabbix, CloudWatch
• Container Platforms: ECS/Fargate, Kubernetes, Rancher, Nomad
• Secrets Management: Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager
• Public Key Infrastructure: Hashicorp Vault, AWS Certificate Manager
• Identity Management: Entra ID, Keycloak
• Desktop Infrastructure: JAMF, ESET, Okta/Entra
• Security Standards: TLS & PKI, Cloud Security, CIS Benchmarks, NCSC Cloud Security Principles, DAST/SAST
• Cloud Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, VPC Peering, Service Mesh (Linkerd, Istio, Consul Connect, Lattice)

This is an excellent opportunity for a DevOps professional with a passion for developing secure, scalable platforms in a fast-paced public sector environment. If you bring hands-on experience with cloud and DevOps practices and are ready for a dynamic role, we encourage you to apply.