Job Description
Lead / Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Opportunity - Inside IR35 UK Wide
The Bridge IT are supporting a flagship digital transformation programme, seeking experienced Senior and Lead DevOps Engineers to join established engineering teams. This is a long-term contract with significant scope for impact, working on critical national services.
Day rate: £625 £650 p/d (Inside IR35)
Location: Hybrid with occasional travel to sites across the UK
Duration: Until March 2026 (initial), with expectation of 12-month extension
Clearance: SC Clearance required (will sponsor if needed)
The Role:
You will be part of cross-functional teams delivering and maintaining large-scale digital platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, and resilience. The role requires a blend of technical depth and leadership capability particularly in automation, observability, and mentoring team members.
Key Skills & Experience:
- DevOps/SRE experience (5+ years) ownership of projects, strong automation and Infrastructure-as-Code approach, incident management, and leadership of initiatives.
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Terraform production use including modules, state management, and AWS integration.
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Kafka experience with production clusters, scaling, tuning, troubleshooting, and event-driven systems.
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MongoDB strong admin experience including replication, sharding, tuning, and backups.
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Monitoring/Observability Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, with strong alerting/SLO design.
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AWS expertise across EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, ALB/NLB, and cost optimisation.
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Linux advanced administration, performance debugging, and security hardening.
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CI/CD & Automation Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions, plus containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) and GitOps practices.
If this sounds of interest, please apply to hear more!
