31 - Senior DevOps Engineer

Our client is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a 15-person team responsible for delivering and operating applications in a 24/7 environment.

This is a five-month engagement running from 10 August to 31 December 2026, fully remote.

You'll be hands-on with Kubernetes-based applications across both on-premises and public cloud infrastructure, and you'll also help coordinate subcontractors contributing to the platform.

This is not a junior platform role. We're looking for someone who has already carried production responsibility in a 24/7 setting and can step in and be useful in week one.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver and operate applications in a 24/7 production environment

• Implement, deploy and maintain Kubernetes-based applications

• Work across both on-premises and public cloud (AWS) environments

• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform

• Manage GitOps-based deployments with Argo CD and Helm

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI

• Support data platform components and orchestration workloads

• Handle networking, DNS, encryption and certificate management

• Coordinate and manage subcontractors working on the platform

Required Skills and Experience

• Senior-level, hands-on Kubernetes experience in production

• Strong AWS experience alongside on-premises infrastructure

• Terraform for infrastructure as code

• Argo CD and Helm for GitOps deployment workflows

• GitLab CI and Git

• Python for automation and tooling

• PostgreSQL

• Solid networking, DNS, encryption and certificate management fundamentals

• Experience operating in a 24/7 environment with real uptime expectations

• Clear communication in English and comfort working with external subcontractors

Nice to Have

• Data platform experience: Spark, Hadoop

• Data orchestration tooling, particularly Dagster

• Jupyter Notebooks

• BI tooling exposure: Tableau, Power BI