Senior DevOps Expert with Agentic AI Tools at UST, London, £Contract Rate

Senior DevOps Engineer with Agentic AI tools exp

London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)
Permanent/FTC / Contract (Inside IR35)
Initial 6-month engagement with strong extension potential for Contract roles
Immediate availability preferred

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK

We’re seeking a highly capable Senior DevOps Engineer to help modernise and evolve a large-scale enterprise DevOps toolchain within a complex, regulated environment.

This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, developer enablement, security, and governance. You’ll work closely with engineering teams, platform owners, security, audit, and risk stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and developer-friendly DevOps capabilities that support enterprise software delivery at scale.

This is a hands-on engineering role with strong influence across CI/CD strategy, platform reliability, automation, governance, and AI-assisted engineering practices.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Design, build, and enhance enterprise DevOps platforms and CI/CD tooling
• Improve developer experience through scalable, secure, and reusable platform capabilities
• Provide L3 support and operational oversight for CI/CD tooling, build agents, and self-hosted runners
• Drive automation, reliability, and continuous delivery best practices across engineering teams
• Implement secure-by-default, auditable, and compliant DevOps solutions
• Collaborate closely with developers, platform teams, security, audit, and risk functions to co-design practical solutions
• Support governance requirements including RBAC, policy enforcement, audit logging, and pipeline controls
• Contribute to AI-assisted engineering initiatives including AI-enabled CI/CD, testing, and developer productivity tooling
• Help shape modern platform engineering and DevSecOps practices within the organisation

What you will bring:

DevOps expert who has hands on experience on DevOps tools, automation ,having experience in driving DevOps solutions in large organizations The person will have to drive automation, AI assisted DevOps capabilities and collaboratively work with delivery, audit, risk, compliance teams to deliver software safely and effectively.

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE environments
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, and cloud technologies

Mandatory -

• Strong experience with DevOps platforms, CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and automation.
• Github and Azure DevOps
• Build agents (AKS based for Azure DevOps and Github, self-hosted agents as well)
• Terraform
• Agentic coding tools (Claude code/other tools)
• Github copilot

Good to have – Experience on Octopus, SonarQube, JFrog artifactory, checkmarx (At least 2 of these should be fine)

Hurry and apply!

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