Senior DevOps Engineer

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Manchester, UK (Hybrid)

Employment type: Contract role

Must have: 7+ Years of experience, Google Cloud, Terraform, Dynatrace/Telemetry, Kubernetes

Essential skills and experience

Container platforms

Strong hands-on Kubernetes engineering; GKE preferred. OpenShift experience is required.

Cloud & IaC

Google Cloud Platform experience preferred; strong Terraform and reusable infrastructure automation.

Delivery engineering

Harness CI/CD and Jenkins; pipeline design, automation, release controls and deployment patterns.

Developer platform

Backstage and Internal Developer Platform concepts, including self-service and golden paths.

Observability & SRE

Dynatrace; metrics, telemetry, logs, traces, alerting, SLI/SLO practices and runbook automation.

Security & controls

HashiCorp Vault, certificate management, IAM/least privilege, platform controls and secure configuration.

Networking

Istio Service Mesh, ingress/egress, service connectivity, traffic management and network security concepts.

Engineering practices

GitHub / Git, automation-first mindset, scripting, troubleshooting and production support.