DevOps Engineer at Starting Point Recruitment, Remote, £500 - £600 per day

DevOps Engineer - AWS / GCP / Azure
£500-£600 per day | Outside IR35
Remote / Hybrid / On-site

We are currently recruiting for an experienced DevOps Engineer to support the delivery and ongoing management of a multi-cloud environment across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
This is a hands-on contract opportunity for a strong infrastructure engineer with experience across cloud platforms, application deployments, automation, and platform reliability. You will be responsible for maintaining secure, scalable infrastructure while supporting both backend and frontend deployments in a fast-paced technical environment.
Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure across AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Manage deployments for both frontend and backend applications
• Configure and maintain SQL and/or NoSQL databases, including backups and performance monitoring
• Set up and manage API Gateway services to support secure API integrations
• Configure and maintain SMTP services for system and transactional email delivery
• Manage Azure Active Directory / Azure Tenant, including access control and identity management
• Oversee DNS management, domain configuration, and routing
• Monitor infrastructure performance, security, and availability
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support streamlined deployments
• Support infrastructure automation and continuous improvement
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, and deployment issues as required
• Work closely with development teams to improve release and deployment processes

Skills & Experience Required
To be considered, you will ideally have:

• Strong experience working with AWS cloud services
• Hands-on commercial experience with GCP
• Experience deploying and managing web applications and services
• Strong knowledge of database configuration, maintenance, and backup processes
• Experience working with API Gateway technologies
• Good understanding of SMTP and email delivery services
• Experience managing Azure Tenant / Azure Active Directory
• Strong understanding of DNS, networking fundamentals, and Linux environments
• Experience using CI/CD tools, including GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar

Desirable Experience
Any experience with the following would be advantageous:

• Terraform, CloudFormation, or other Infrastructure as Code tools
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, or Prometheus
• Security, IAM, and best practice cloud governance
• Experience working within multi-cloud environments

Contract: Initial contract with extension potential
If you are a technically strong DevOps Engineer looking for your next contract opportunity, please apply with an updated CV for immediate consideration.