Job Specifications
DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote (occasional travel to York, 1–2 times per month)
Contract Length: 6 months
IR35 Status: Outside IR35
Start Date: Immediate
WRK digital is excited to partner with a well-known and trusted UK brand to recruit a skilled DevOps Engineer for a new contract opportunity. This is a fantastic chance to join a forward-thinking technology team focused on scalability, automation, and cloud infrastructure innovation.
We're looking for an experienced DevOps professional who can lead and support the build, deployment, and optimisation of cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines — primarily within an AWS environment. You will play a key role in ensuring infrastructure is robust, secure, and designed for scalability using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, with a strong emphasis on Terraform.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS services and Terraform
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support application deployment and environment management
Collaborate with development, data, and security teams to ensure efficient and secure infrastructure delivery
Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring
Ensure high availability, performance, and disaster recovery strategies are in place
Monitor systems for performance and reliability issues, resolving incidents quickly and efficiently
Advocate for DevOps best practices and continuous improvement within the team
Key Skills & Experience:
Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, ideally within a mid-to-large scale cloud environment
Strong hands-on experience with AWS (e.g. EC2, S3, ECS, Lambda, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch)
Solid experience writing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar
Familiarity with containerisation tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes a plus)
Knowledge of monitoring/logging tools (e.g. CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK)
Strong scripting skills (e.g. Bash, Python)
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Location & Flexibility:
This is a remote-first contract role, with a requirement to attend meetings in York 1–2 times per month.
About the Company
WRK digital was founded to be a Trusted, Passionate and Authentic business, partnering some of the most exciting companies to scale their technology teams and disrupt our industry.
WRK digital excels in four core disciplines;
- Technology Leadership
- Data, BI and Analytics
- Software Engineering
- Transformation and Programme Delivery
The challenges of recruiting experienced and exceptional Technology talent has never been more complex, however WRK digital act as an extension of your business and represent your brand ...
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