DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer – Contract (Outside IR35) | £500–£600 per day | Fully Remote

Founded in 2019 by engineers solving complex cross-domain challenges within government organisations, TwinStream was built on a passion for technical excellence and delivering high-quality solutions. Today, we’re a growing team of over 100 specialists across the UK, working remotely, hybrid and on client sites to deliver secure, scalable and innovative systems for our customers. We’re now looking for experienced DevOps Engineers to join a new team supporting the deployment and ongoing operation of a sophisticated cross-domain platform.

The DevOps Engineer Role

You’ll play a key role in deploying, maintaining and improving a highly available event-driven microservices platform built around Docker container services and AMQP messaging. Working closely with feature delivery teams, you’ll help drive reliable production releases, maintain CI/CD pipelines, improve observability and ensure systems continue to meet demanding SLA/SLO targets. This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned engineer who enjoys solving complex operational challenges, automating infrastructure and working with modern DevOps tooling in a managed service environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Collaborating with development teams to promote releases into production efficiently and safely
• Maintaining highly available services using real-time monitoring and system metrics
• Building and improving monitoring, alerting and observability capabilities
• Investigating alerts and incidents, implementing preventative and remedial actions
• Working with customer stakeholders to coordinate releases and evolving service requirements
• Driving automation to reduce manual operational overhead
• Supporting continuous improvement across infrastructure, deployment and operational processes

Skills Experience

• Infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or Ansible
• Docker containers and orchestration platforms including Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm
• CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions
• Linux administration, shell scripting and command-line tooling
• AWS environments and cloud infrastructure
• Monitoring and observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana or InfluxDB
• SQL and relational databases
• Performance tuning, troubleshooting, scaling and disaster recovery
• Network security principles and protocols

Desirable Experience

Any of the following would be beneficial:

• Managed service environments
• AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3 and Lambda
• RabbitMQ or other AMQP/event-driven messaging platforms
• Cross-domain technologies and principles
• Software development experience in Java, Go, Python or similar languages

Additional Information

Due to the nature of the work and client environments, any offer will be subject to successful completion of security screening and clearance requirements.

What’s Next?

Apply for this exciting new DevOps Engineer opportunity today for immediate consideration.