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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Sanderson Recruitment Plc
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £143,000.0
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Confluence, JIRA, Software Quality, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Ansible, Systems Integration, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Build Process, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** July 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://computerjobs.com/gb/en/mob/job/551867E8246E510617

## About the Role

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to design, build and operate reliable CI/CD platforms across a mix of container and VM environments. You'll focus on Jenkins-based CI, automation, code quality integration and enabling fast, stable delivery for engineering teams.

Key technical skills:

 * CI/CD engineering with Jenkins (pipelines, shared libraries, PR workflows, credentials management)
 * Automation with Ansible and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
 * Docker or Podman, plus Kubernetes fundamentals and running CI workloads on cluster agents
 * Git-based workflows, Jira/Confluence use, and integration with CI systems
 * AWS Cloud experience is essential

## Description

DevOps Engineer

£550/day Inside IR-35 for an initial 6 months

SC role

London - at most 1 day per week on site

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to design, build and operate reliable CI/CD platforms across a mix of container and VM environments. You'll focus on Jenkins-based CI, automation, code quality integration and enabling fast, stable delivery for engineering teams.

Key technical skills:

 * CI/CD engineering with Jenkins (pipelines, shared libraries, PR workflows, credentials management)
 * Automation with Ansible and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
 * Docker or Podman, plus Kubernetes fundamentals and running CI workloads on cluster agents
 * Git-based workflows, Jira/Confluence use, and integration with CI systems
 * AWS Cloud experience is essential

What you'll be doing:

 * Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and shared CI platforms
 * Automating configuration, builds and environment provisioning
 * Integrating code quality, security and compliance tools
 * Managing build agents across Kubernetes and VM environments
 * Supporting developers with reliable, high-performance build processes
 * Troubleshooting CI and automation issues and documenting platforms and runbooks

You'll bring solid problem solving skills, clear communication, and the ability to take ownership of platforms end to end while balancing speed and stability.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.


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