Senior DevOps & Platform Automation Engineer - Outside IR35 Contract - Hybrid - London
Driving Agentic AI, Ephemeral Infrastructure & Next-Generation Delivery
We're seeking an experienced DevOps and Platform Automation professional to play a key role in shaping the future of engineering delivery within a rapidly evolving technology function.
Working closely with the DevOps & Automation leadership team, you'll help accelerate a strategic transformation focused on intelligent automation, cloud-native engineering, self-service platforms and ephemeral environments. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on innovation, enjoys solving complex challenges at scale, and wants to influence how modern software delivery is implemented across an enterprise organisation.
You'll be instrumental in advancing capabilities across platform engineering, deployment automation, observability, AI-driven operations and Infrastructure as Code, helping move the organisation toward highly automated, resilient and scalable technology services.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Engineering & DevOps Delivery
- Partner with delivery teams, product stakeholders and engineering leads to understand upcoming initiatives and ensure platform and DevOps capabilities align with business priorities.
- Work collaboratively to assess, plan and execute technical workstreams that support application delivery and operational excellence.
- Provide transparent communication around progress, risks and delivery milestones within Agile environments.
- Produce and maintain high-quality technical documentation, operational runbooks and deployment standards.
CI/CD & Environment Modernisation
- Enhance software delivery pipelines through increased automation, testing, security integration and deployment consistency.
- Develop and optimise release processes using modern DevOps tooling and cloud-native practices.
- Champion Infrastructure as Code and automated provisioning to support rapid creation and management of on-demand environments.
- Contribute to the evolution of ephemeral infrastructure and environment lifecycle management strategies.
DevSecOps & Governance
- Embed security best practices throughout the development and deployment lifecycle.
- Support the implementation of automated compliance controls, vulnerability management and policy enforcement.
- Ensure all automation, infrastructure changes and deployment activities are fully auditable and aligned with governance requirements.
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Proven experience working within DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE or Automation-focused environments.
- Must have a background/knowledge in Software Development - application engineering predominantly with C# and Java.
- Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
- Hands-on experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines within Azure and Git-based environments.
- Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes.
- Experience managing application deployments across both Windows and Linux platforms.
- Strong understanding of modern monitoring and observability principles.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement
- Experience building or operating ephemeral environments and platform engineering solutions.
- Experience with DevSecOps practices and security automation.
- Familiarity with tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, Octopus Deploy, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
- Experience working in complex enterprise or regulated environments.
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