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# DevOps Specialist

- **Company:** SThree Plc
- **Location:** Leeds, UK
- **Salary:** £130,000.0 - £169,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), SAP (Applications), Scripting, Google Cloud, Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Platform System, Multi-Cloud, Reliability of Systems, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Terraform, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=57ee519a2311eebf

## About the Role

* Practical experience with CI/CD platforms and deployment automation
 * Working knowledge of containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
 * Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS or GCP)
 * Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
 * Understanding of Linux and/or Windows system administration
 * Experience with scripting or automation using Bash, Python or similar languages
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Nice-to-have

 * AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or equivalent certification
 * Experience with SAP infrastructure or enterprise systems
 * Knowledge of microservices architectures and distributed systems
 * Exposure to monitoring and observability tools
 * Master's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

## Description

DevOps Specialists play a critical role in modernising infrastructure and deployment practices, bridging the gap between development and operations teams to enable faster, more reliable software delivery. This is an opportunity to register your interest in future DevOps Specialist roles where you could contribute to building and maintaining robust, scalable cloud infrastructure., This is a contract opportunity based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, where you could support the design, deployment and optimisation of cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Roles of this type may involve working with modern containerisation, orchestration and infrastructure-as-code practices to enable development teams to deliver software more reliably and at pace. You could collaborate with engineering teams to implement automation, improve deployment efficiency and maintain system reliability across hybrid or multi-cloud environments., * Supporting the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

 * Managing containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes
 * Provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform
 * Writing infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform
 * Monitoring system performance, troubleshooting infrastructure issues and implementing reliability improvements
 * Collaborating with development teams to streamline deployment processes and reduce time-to-market
 * Maintaining security, compliance and best practices across infrastructure and deployments
 * Contributing to documentation and knowledge-sharing across engineering teams


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