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Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract)
Rate: £375 per day (Inside IR35)
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Hybrid (London)
Tech: Terraform & AWS (Kinesis focus)
We are looking for a contract Senior DevOps Engineer for a 6-month project. You will be joining an IT consultancy team working with a major UK insurance and financial services company.
The focus of this role is heavily on Terraform and AWS – specifically getting stuck into infrastructure unblocking, integrations, and pipeline fixes.
Responsibilities
- Integrations & Security: Handle connections to systems like Guidewire and Dataiku. Sort out the network, IAM, and data access requirements.
- Third-Party Support: Work alongside major global consulting partners to help with environment setups, manage security ticketing, and fix infrastructure issues.
- CI/CD & Deployment: Troubleshoot pipeline failures (Artifactory, vulnerability scans) and set up CI/CD for feature-level deployments.
- Event Streaming: Provision and maintain Amazon Kinesis (pending final architectural decisions).
- Triage & Fixes: Run root cause analysis on platform service errors and loop in the right engineering teams to resolve them.
- LLM Setup: Support the AI side by testing model latency, stripping out infrastructure overhead, and handling PTU setup and load testing.
- Monitoring: Work with the Ops team and Platform Manager on monitoring and alerting to keep services reliable and highly available (RESCAT-0).
- Environment Support: Handle environment provisioning, managing secrets, certificates, and general Terraform readiness.
- Voice Architecture: Support fallback voice architecture (Azure Live) if needed.
- Enablement & Handover: Build shared components or boilerplates so the team doesn't have to reinvent the wheel, then hand over cleanly to the permanent Ops team.
Requirements
- Strong Terraform skills for provisioning and managing infrastructure as code.
- Solid AWS experience, ideally with Amazon Kinesis or other streaming tools.
- Practical experience troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines and security tooling.
- Comfortable working in large, multi-vendor enterprise environments.
To Apply
If you are available and this fits your tech stack, please apply directly ASAP!
To apply for this job please visit www.reed.co.uk.
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