Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer (Contract)
Day Rate: £130–170 per day
Location: Remote (UK time zones preferred)
A fast-growing technology company are looking for an Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer to join their small but highly impactful infrastructure team on a long-term contract basis.
You’ll work closely with an experienced Head of Infrastructure to design, scale, and optimise modern cloud infrastructure powering a high-availability platform. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys working across infrastructure, automation, and cloud operations in a collaborative, remote-first environment.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Designing and maintaining scalable AWS infrastructure across modern cloud environments
- Building infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools, including CDK and Terraform
- Managing and optimising AWS services, including ECS, Lambda, VPC, and Aurora Postgres
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Implementing monitoring, observability, and alerting using Datadog
- Supporting development teams with deployment, automation, and operational best practices
- Improving infrastructure security, scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency
- Monitoring system performance and proactively identifying improvements
- Documenting infrastructure architecture and operational processes
- Collaborating closely with engineering teams across multiple time zones
What You Bring
- Strong hands-on AWS experience, ideally across ECS, Lambda, VPC, and RDS
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and/or CDK
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling, such as Datadog
- Knowledge of containerisation concepts and infrastructure best practices
- Some experience with TypeScript or JavaScript for scripting and CDK purposes
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication skills and confidence working in remote environments
- Comfortable asking questions, collaborating with others, and seeking clarification when needed
- Honest, self-aware, and team-oriented approach to engineering challenges
Nice to Have
- AWS certifications, such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer
- Advanced Datadog experience, including dashboards, APM, and log aggregation
- Experience with disaster recovery, backups, and infrastructure resilience
- Understanding of governance, compliance, and security best practices
Contract Details
- Long-term rolling contract with strong likelihood of ongoing extension
- Flexible structure with either:
- 4-day week at the equivalent of approximately £170/day
- 5-day week at a lower equivalent day rate of approximately £130/day
- Open to both junior and mid-level engineers with strong AWS fundamentals
- Remote-first role working primarily within UK time zones
- Preferred locations include Europe and South Africa