Sellick Partnership
Senior DevOps Engineer
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Senior DevOps Engineer – Contract
Location: London – Hybrid, 1 day per week onsite
Day Rate: £450 per day
IR35: Inside IR35
Contract Type: Contract
Clearance: BPSS
Team: Software Engineering
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a major UK digital transformation programme.
You will work within a Software Engineering team, helping to build and improve development tooling, infrastructure and CI/CD processes. The position combines DevOps expertise with a modern AWS serverless environment and requires someone comfortable working across both infrastructure and application delivery.
You will be expected to operate at senior/SME level, collaborating across multiple teams, contributing to technical decisions and helping ensure platforms are scalable, reliable and secure.
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The environment includes:
- AWS
- AWS Serverless Architecture
- AWS Lambda
- DynamoDB
- API Gateway
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Playwright
- CI/CD
- Cloud automation and DevOps tooling
- Infrastructure and deployment automation
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain development tools and cloud infrastructure.
- Design, build and improve end-to-end CI/CD pipelines.
- Support AWS serverless applications using services such as Lambda, DynamoDB and API Gateway.
- Automate development, deployment and infrastructure processes.
- Work closely with software engineering and cross-functional teams.
- Improve the scalability, reliability and security of development and deployment processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve existing workflows through automation.
- Monitor platform performance and proactively address potential issues.
- Act as a DevOps SME and contribute to key technical and architectural decisions.
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Essential Experience
We are looking for candidates with strong commercial experience across:
- Senior-level DevOps / Cloud Engineering
- AWS
- CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
- Cloud automation
- Configuration and release management
- Infrastructure and deployment automation
- Working within modern software engineering environments
- Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills
Expert-level DevOps capability is required, with cloud automation, configuration/release management and continuous improvement also highlighted for the role.
Desirable / Relevant Application Experience
Experience working alongside or supporting development teams using TypeScript, Next.js, Playwright and AWS serverless technologies would be particularly beneficial.
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