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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Hays plc
- **Location:** Bury, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £44,151.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Cyber Security, DevOps, Github, Release Management, Terraform, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5918817271

## About the Role

* We are looking for an experienced Senior, Senior or Principal DevOps/CloudOps professional.
 * We need a subject-matter expert in DevOps, Cloud Management and FinOps.
 * We need experience working in a cloud environment, specifically AWS.
 * We need experience designing and building Infrastructure as Code frameworks, such as Terraform.
 * We need experience building pipelines from scratch and continuously improving them, particularly using GitHub.
 * We need experience working with monorepos and scaling pipelines for large engineering teams to enable parallel deployments.
 * We need knowledge of configuration management, service management and release management toolkits to enable a high degree of automation across those areas.

## Description

* We will ask you to design, build and maintain a standardised DevOps framework that enables deployment of reliable, scalable, high-performing and secure production services.
 * You will work within the Product Squad, collaborating closely with Engineering, Product and QA.
 * You will also interact with Service Reliability, Information Security, Architecture, QA, Production Enablement, Observability and Service Delivery teams.

Technologies:

 * AWS
 * Cloud
 * DevOps
 * GitHub
 * Security
 * Terraform, We are hiring a Senior/Senior/Principal DevOps/CloudOps professional to join our team on a contract basis. The role is based in Bury and requires three days on site. This is an inside IR35 contract with a day rate of £700-£800. We work closely across product, engineering, QA and a wider set of specialist teams to deliver reliable, scalable and secure production services.