Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract) Rate: £375 per day (Inside IR35) Duration: 6 Months Location: Hybrid (London) Tech: Terraform & AWS (Kinesis focus) We are looking for a contract Senior DevOps Engineer for a 6-month project. You will be joining an IT consultancy team working with a major UK insurance and financial services company. The focus of this role is heavily on Terraform and AWS - specifically getting stuck into infrastructure unblocking, integrations, and pipeline fixes. Responsibilities • Integrations & Security: Handle connections to systems like Guidewire and Dataiku. Sort out the network, IAM, and data access requirements. • Third-Party Support: Work alongside major global consulting partners to help with environment setups, manage security ticketing, and fix infrastructure issues. • CI/CD & Deployment: Troubleshoot pipeline failures (Artifactory, vulnerability scans) and set up CI/CD for feature-level deployments. • Event Streaming: Provision and maintain Amazon Kinesis (pending final architectural decisions). • Triage & Fixes: Run root cause analysis on platform service errors and loop in the right engineering teams to resolve them. • LLM Setup: Support the AI side by testing model latency, stripping out infrastructure overhead, and handling PTU setup and load testing. • Monitoring: Work with the Ops team and Platform Manager on monitoring and alerting to keep services reliable and highly available (RESCAT-0). • Environment Support: Handle environment provisioning, managing secrets, certificates, and general Terraform readiness. • Voice Architecture: Support fallback voice architecture (Azure Live) if needed. • Enablement & Handover: Build shared components or boilerplates so the team doesn't have to reinvent the wheel, then hand over cleanly to the permanent Ops team. Requirements • Strong Terraform skills for provisioning and managing infrastructure as code. • Solid AWS experience, ideally with Amazon Kinesis or other streaming tools. • Practical experience troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines and security tooling. • Comfortable working in large, multi-vendor enterprise environments. To ApplyIf you are available and this fits your tech stack, please apply directly ASAP!