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DevOps Contractor (Contract, Outside IR35)
At a Glance
- Up to £480 per day, Outside IR35
- 12 month contract, hybrid working based in Greater Manchester
- DevOps role spanning GCP and AWS, built around CI/CD, Terraform and Ansible
- Genuine ownership of the delivery pipeline and architecture, not just ticket execution
About the Company
Our client is an established organisation running business critical workloads across Google Cloud and AWS. Their technology function has invested heavily in automation and Infrastructure as Code, and they are bringing in experienced contract talent to support a period of sustained growth. It is a collaborative environment where engineers are trusted to shape how software gets built, tested and shipped, not just keep the lights on.
The Role
This is a hands on DevOps contract covering both GCP and AWS environments. You will sit at the intersection of development and operations, building the CI/CD pipelines, Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks that get code from commit to production quickly and safely. There is real autonomy here: you will be trusted to shape delivery practices and tooling rather than simply follow a backlog. It suits someone who thinks in pipelines, feedback loops and automation first, and who is just as comfortable debugging a failed deployment as designing the network it runs on.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines that take code from commit to production across GCP and AWS
- Build Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration
- Champion GitOps practices and containerisation, working with Docker and Kubernetes across environments
- Architect scalable, highly available cloud solutions that meet business and security requirements
- Collaborate with development teams to embed automation and reliability into the software delivery lifecycle
- Implement monitoring and observability to give engineering teams fast feedback on system health
- Drive cost optimisation and governance across cloud resources
- Implement security controls, compliance frameworks and disaster recovery solutions
- Lead incident response and troubleshooting, feeding learnings back into automation and tooling
- Maintain clear documentation for pipelines, infrastructure designs and runbooks
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What You'll Need
Essential:
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure engineering or a similar role
- Strong hands on expertise with GCP (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, Cloud SQL, Cloud Functions) and AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda)
- Advanced Terraform experience for Infrastructure as Code development and management
- Extensive Ansible experience for configuration management and automation
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Proficiency in Bash and Python for scripting and automation
- Solid experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments
- Strong Linux/Unix administration and networking fundamentals
- Solid knowledge of cloud security best practice and compliance frameworks
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Desirable / Nice to Have:
- GCP Professional Cloud Architect or DevOps Engineer, or AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer Professional certification
- Experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux) and service mesh technologies (Istio, Anthos Service Mesh)
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Cloud Operations Suite)
Why Apply?
- Up to £480 per day, Outside IR35
- 12 month contract with hybrid working from Greater Manchester
- Genuine multi cloud exposure across both GCP and AWS, not just one platform
- Own the delivery pipeline end to end, from commit through to production and incident response
- Advanced automation environment built around Terraform, Ansible and CI/CD from day one
- Work alongside a collaborative development team that values engineering autonomy
- A well governed, security conscious environment for serious DevOps work
Next Steps
To find out more, contact Aaron Somers at aaron@ochopeople.com or connect on LinkedIn.
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