Job Specifications
Contract: Senior/Lead DevOps & Automation Engineer
Rate: Up to £650 Per Day
Contract Type: Outside IR35
Duration: 12 months Initial + Extensions
Sector: London Markets Insurer
Location: Hybrid - 2-3 Days Per Week in Central London
A leading organisation in a regulated industry is seeking an experienced DevOps & Automation Engineer to support the delivery of modern DevOps practices and automation initiatives. The role focuses on improving CI/CD, environment management, and automation capabilities, with an emphasis on ephemeral environments, scalable platforms, and self-service tooling.
You will work closely with delivery, engineering, and operations teams to support projects, modernise tooling, and drive automation across the technology estate.
Key Technologies & Tools
Experience with a selection of the following is desirable:
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy
Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes
Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry
Automation & Low-Code Platforms: Power Automate, UiPath
Windows and Linux environments
Key Responsibilities
Contribute to the delivery of a DevOps and automation roadmap, with a focus on ephemeral environments and advanced automation approaches.
Collaborate with delivery and engineering teams to understand upcoming work and identify DevOps and automation requirements.
Plan, prioritise, and deliver DevOps-related project tasks, providing regular progress updates.
Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and environment management solutions.
Develop and maintain documentation, runbooks, and knowledge articles for deployments and troubleshooting.
Manage configuration, release, and environment processes across multi-tier systems.
Support application, service, and database deployments across Windows and Linux-based platforms.
Drive high levels of end-to-end automation using reusable, auditable components, with appropriate human oversight.
Build self-service automation capabilities to enable teams to operate and manage their own processes.
Enhance observability and monitoring to provide insight into system health, deployments, and performance.
Embed security and compliance into pipelines and automation, ensuring traceability and auditability.
Support continuous improvement by exploring new tools, platforms, and automation techniques.
Coordinate environment refreshes, planned outages, and release activities with wider delivery teams.
Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Provide support and guidance to other team members on DevOps-related activities.
Engage with third-party vendors where required.
About the Company
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