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