Senior Cloud Systems Engineer Contract (Remote, Outside IR35)

Senior Cloud Systems Engineer - Azure/Azure DevOps/Terraform/Datadog OR New Relic

URGENT CONTRACT ROLE TO BEGIN IN AUGUST FOR 3/6 MONTHS, REMOTE

• 3/6 month contract position available for immediately available/Short notice candidates.
• Leeds/Leicestershire/London based Creative Digital Agency
• Senior Cloud Systems Engineer - Azure/Azure DevOps/Terraform/Config Management/Datadog
• Day rate; £420 - £455 per day (outside of IR35)
• Fully remote opportunity.
• To apply please call or email

Immediate requirement for a Senior Cloud Systems Engineer to work with multiple award winning Digital Agency, based in the county of Leicestershire, Leeds and London, will be fully remote for the first few months, as the office reopens this role will move to be office based.

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Why work with us?

We are an multi-award winning bespoke Digital Agency, building digital solutions that transform and improve the way you are perceived as a client. We've grown dramatically in the past 5 years, delivering excellent commercial results for our clients. We have a multi-platform DevOps team that we are looking to expand with two Cloud Systems Engineers.

What will the role entail?

We are trying to streamline our Cloud capabilities, using modern tools to change our processes for our clients. We are looking to bring in an experienced contractor to assist the DevOps and SRE teams on delivering our clients safe, accurate services, ensuring that the project is delivered on time and within budget. Day to day tasks will include creating pipelines, Infrastructure Design and Monitoring, CI on the client side as well as mentoring junior members of the team.

Essential skills:

• Azure DevOps as well as good knowledge of Azure.
• Proficient commercial experience with Terraform
• Monitoring Tools (Datadog, New Relic or Application insights)
• Experience mentoring or leading a team.
• A wide range of Infrastructure/Automation and Monitoring tools in general.
• A Good understanding of Systems Architecture and Infrastructure as a whole.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Desirable skills:

• Hands on software engineering knowledge with one or more languages (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript, Java or C#)
• Azure or AWS certifications
• Previous experience on working on IAAS projects.
• Using Azure IaC (ARM templates)
• Having worked within projects either generating business or client facing.

TO BE CONSIDERED…..

Please either apply by clicking online or emailing me directly to . For further information please call me on . I can make myself available outside of normal working hours to suit from 7am until 10pm. If unavailable please leave a message and either myself or one of my colleagues will respond. By applying for this role you give express consent for us to process & submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only. Also feel free to follow me on Twitter @contractsdave or connect with me on LinkedIn, just search Dave Henderson in Google! I look forward to hearing from you.

KEY SKILLS: Azure/TERRAFORM/DATADOG/APPLICATION INSIGHTS/CI/CD/IAAS/IaC