DevOps Engineer

Interim Dev Ops Engineer (Contract) | Hybrid | Newcastle HQ Outside Ir35, initial 3 month contract.

We're looking for an experienced Interim Dev Ops Engineer to join our growing SaaS business on an initial contract. This is a hands‑on role where you'll work across our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platform and wider technology estate, helping to maintain, improve and scale our environments.

You'll be part of a collaborative engineering team, contributing to platform reliability, automation and operational excellence. The role is predominantly remote, with regular travel to our Newcastle HQ as required.

• Managing and improving our AWS cloud infrastructure
• Supporting and optimising Kubernetes workloads and container platforms
• Developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code and automation
• Enhancing CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
• Monitoring platform health, performance and security
• Collaborating with engineering teams to deliver resilient, scalable solutions
• Supporting both cloud infrastructure and wider IT environments where required
• AWS: EKS, ECS, ECR
• Application Load Balancer (ALBv2)
• WAF
• Route
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• Cloud Watch
• Open Search
• RDS (MySQL)
• S3
• Lambda
• IAM
• Organizations
• SQS & SNS
• Global Accelerator
• AWS Transfer Family

• Rancher
• Docker
• Git & Git Hub
• Git Hub Actions
• Terraform / Open Tofu
• Ansible
• Grafana

• Proven experience in a Dev Ops or Platform Engineering role
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform or Open Tofu preferred)
• Docker and containerisation expertise
• A proactive, hands‑on approach with excellent troubleshooting abilities
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with engineering and technical stakeholders

If you're an experienced Dev Ops Engineer who enjoys working in modern cloud environments and can quickly add value to a fast‑paced SaaS business, we'd love to hear from you.