DevOps Engineer
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Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Sheffield, Birmingham or Edinburgh (Either location - 3 x days per week on site)
Salary/Rate: Up to £571 per day
Start Date: April 2026
Job Type: 8-month contract (Inside IR35)
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
- Design and maintain Groovy pipeline steps (build, test, package, scan, deploy).
- Extend Python tooling for SLSA provenance, SBOM generation, hash/digest accuracy, and security scan aggregation (SonarQube, Sonatype IQ, SAST/Container).
- Optimize performance (parallel builds, caching, scope-reduced BOMs, dependency prefetch).
- Ensure artifact integrity (correct SHA1/SHA256 mapping, reproducible inputs, evidence modeling).
- Refactor legacy scripts (remove global state, consolidate hashing, standardize templates).
- Document ci-config.yaml standards and usage patterns.
- Troubleshoot and prevent pipeline incidents.
- Mentor engineers on secure pipeline development and supply-chain practices.
Required Skills/Experience The ideal candidate will have the following:
- 7 years engineering; 3 in CI/CD platform or DevSecOps.
- Strong Jenkins Groovy shared library expertise.
- Advanced Python automation (JSON/YAML processing, tooling scripts).
- Deep Maven/NPM/Python packaging knowledge; exposure to Helm/Terraform and container image metadata.
- Supply-chain security (SLSA, CycloneDX SBOM, digests).
- Experience with SonarQube, Sonatype IQ, container and SAST scanning.
- Compliance Awareness
- Proven performance tuning (caching, parallelization, dependency pruning).
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.