Senior DevOps Engineer | Digital DevOps Lead
About BeInspired and Team Inspire
BeInspired is a Technology, Transformation & Growth delivery partner. Through Team Inspire, we mobilise specialist consultants and multidisciplinary teams to deliver critical workstreams and complex programmes.
Role purpose
We are seeking two Senior DevOps Engineers (Digital DevOps Leads) to own end-to-end DevOps processes, release governance and product delivery strategies across a major UK public-sector digital and data analytics function. Working closely with engineering and architecture leads, you will lead and coach a small DevOps engineering team while remaining accountable for platform stability, availability, automation and service quality.
What you will deliver
- Own the overall DevOps process and contribute to medium- and long-term strategies for product lines and the wider engineering community.
- Lead, coach and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, fostering an automation-first DevOps culture and supporting professional development.
- Design and manage reusable libraries, templates and shared services, breaking complex requirements into deliverable workstreams.
- Lead the assessment, planning, design and risk management of release packages, ensuring release governance, rollback readiness and modern deployment automation.
- Collaborate with engineering, architecture and IT partners to review specifications, define integration builds and oversee integration testing.
- Share documentation, standards and DevOps good practice across internal teams and wider partner communities.
Essential experience
- Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Terraform in production environments.
- Strong DevOps engineering background, including building and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Proven experience leading release and deployment management, automation tooling and integration build activities.
- Ability to lead, coach and support DevOps and software engineering colleagues while setting technical standards.
- Experience translating specifications into well-tested, documented scripts and services of medium to high complexity.
Useful additional evidence
- Cloud deployment experience across AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
- Relevant cloud computing qualifications.
- Networking skills across multi-service environments.
- Prior UK public sector delivery experience.
Engagement details
- Engagement type: contractor assignment; two positions.
- Initial duration: 12 months, from 11 January 2027 to 10 January 2028.
- Location and working pattern: hybrid, 60% on-site attendance at one of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Blackpool, Newcastle or Sheffield; full-time, 7.4 hours per day and 37 hours per week.
- Engagement: Inside IR35 (approved umbrella providers only where engaging via umbrella, or PAYE).
- Security: baseline screening (BPSS) to start; SC clearance preferred / eligibility required.
- Interview process: to be confirmed.
- The client is a Disability Confident Leader (L3) and an Armed Forces Covenant signatory. Please tell us if you qualify under either scheme.
What happens next
Suitable consultants will be assessed against the delivery requirements and security process before client-specific information is shared. Please confirm if you would like to be considered.
Note: Role closes Monday 16th Nov 2026, 3pm (it may close earlier)
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