DevOps Engineer – Contract, outside of IR35

TwinStream

DevOps Engineer deploying and maintaining cross-domain systems for a customer in a managed services environment. Utilizing AMQP architectural patterns and Docker services with a focus on continuous deployment.

Posted 5/13/2026contractRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 £500 - £600 per dayWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSDockerGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPrometheusShell ScriptingSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborate with Feature Development teams to promote new component versions into production as efficiently as possible.
Maintain the system to agreed service level and availability objectives using real-time monitoring tools and system-generated metrics.
Instrumentation of new system metrics and alerts to pre-empt issues and improve performance.
Respond to monitoring alerts and customer incidents, taking preventative/remedial action to minimise customer impact.
Liaising with key customer stakeholders to schedule capability changes and capture new service requirements as they arise.
Apply automation techniques to reduce the burden of manual operations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience in infrastructure automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform or Ansible)
Experience working with Docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm)
Experience using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or GitHub actions)
Good understanding of relational databases and SQL
Linux command line, administration and shell scripting
Solid understanding of monitoring, auto-scaling, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery best practices
Working knowledge of network security protocols
Working knowledge of AWS
Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

CloudFormationTerraformAnsibleDockerKubernetesOpenShiftDocker SwarmCI/CDJenkinsGitHub actions

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingcustomer serviceincident response