DevOps Engineer, Contract outside of IR35

TwinStream

. Deploy and maintain an established cross-domain system for a customer .

Posted 10/26/2026contractRemote • United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £500 - £600 per dayWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in infrastructure automation, continuous deployment, and system monitoring to ensure high availability and performance. Proficient in collaborating with development teams and applying configuration management tools to enhance deployment consistency and efficiency.

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Infrastructure Automation ToolsCI/CD ToolsDocker ContainersMonitoring ToolsAWS

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Hard Skills

CloudFormationTerraformAnsibleJenkinsGitHub ActionsSQLLinux AdministrationShell ScriptingPerformance TuningDisaster Recovery

Soft Skills

CollaborationProblem-SolvingCommunication

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesOpenShiftDocker SwarmInfluxDBPrometheusGrafana

Certifications & Qualifications

UK Government Security Clearance

Industry Keywords

Cross-Domain PrinciplesManaged Service EnvironmentEvent-Driven IntegrationNetwork Security ProtocolsCloud Hosting Services

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSCloudDockerEC2GrafanaJavaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPrometheusPythonRabbitMQShell ScriptingSQLTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Deploy and maintain an established cross-domain system for a customer
Maintain a continuous deployment pipeline
Collaborate with Feature Development teams to promote component releases into production efficiently
Apply configuration management tools to ensure deployments are consistent and correctly configured
Maintain the system against agreed service-level and availability objectives using real-time monitoring tools and system-generated metrics
Instrument new system metrics and alerts to pre-empt issues and improve performance
Respond to monitoring alerts and customer incidents, taking preventative or remedial action to minimise customer impact
Liaise with key customer stakeholders to schedule capability changes and capture new service requirements
Apply automation techniques to reduce manual operations burden

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience in infrastructure automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform or Ansible)
Experience working with Docker containers and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm
Experience using and maintaining CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions
Good understanding of relational databases and SQL
Linux command line, administration and shell scripting
Solid understanding of monitoring, auto-scaling, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery best practices
Working knowledge of network security protocols
Working knowledge of AWS
Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana
Eligibility for the relevant UK Government security clearance (BPSS / SC / DV)
Must meet UK Government residency and right-to-work requirements associated with the required clearance level
Desirable: experience in a managed service environment
Desirable: experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services, ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3 and Lambda
Desirable: experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging such as RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution
Desirable: knowledge of cross-domain principles and technologies
Desirable: industry experience writing well-tested code in Java, Go, Python or similar

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully remote
3-month rolling contract outside of IR35
£500 to £600 per day