Lead / Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Opportunity - Inside IR35– UK Wide

The Bridge IT are supporting a flagship digital transformation programme, seeking experienced Senior and Lead DevOps Engineers to join established engineering teams. This is a long-term contract with significant scope for impact, working on critical national services.

Day rate: £625–£650 p/d (Inside IR35)
Location: Hybrid – with occasional travel to sites across the UK
Duration: Until March 2026 (initial), with expectation of 12-month extension
Clearance: SC Clearance required (will sponsor if needed)

The Role:

You will be part of cross-functional teams delivering and maintaining large-scale digital platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, and resilience. The role requires a blend of technical depth and leadership capability particularly in automation, observability, and mentoring team members.

Key Skills & Experience:

• DevOps/SRE experience (5+ years) – ownership of projects, strong automation and Infrastructure-as-Code approach, incident management, and leadership of initiatives.

• Terraform – production use including modules, state management, and AWS integration.

• Kafka – experience with production clusters, scaling, tuning, troubleshooting, and event-driven systems.

• MongoDB – strong admin experience including replication, sharding, tuning, and backups.

• Monitoring/Observability – Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, with strong alerting/SLO design.

• AWS – expertise across EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, ALB/NLB, and cost optimisation.

• Linux – advanced administration, performance debugging, and security hardening.

• CI/CD & Automation – Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions, plus containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) and GitOps practices.

If this sounds of interest, please apply to hear more!