DevOps Engineer

Greetings We are Hiring **DevOps/AI Engineer Position in Sheffield , UK** DevOps\-BitBucket (Primary – Python, Fast API’ devOps secondary) 6 Months Contract 2 days onsite per week **DevOps/AI Engineer** Experience: 5 to 10 years **Role Focus** * End\-to\-end software delivery lifecycle * Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, monitoring, and system reliability * Strong understanding of enterprise environments, controls, and compliance requirements * Ability to manage work and deliverables independently * Ability to support GenAI\-enabled engineering practices (e.g., AI\-assisted development/operations) while adhering to enterprise governance, security, and risk controls **Key Responsibilities** * Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) * Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) * Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of systems * Collaborate with developers, QA, and IT operations to streamline releases * Troubleshoot deployment, build, and infrastructure issues * Maintain configuration management tools (Ansible) * Ensure compliance with enterprise controls and regulatory requirements * Work independently to deliver on assigned tasks and projects * Utilize Jira and Confluence for work tracking and documentation * Enable and operationalise GenAI/LLM\-based tooling in the DevOps toolchain (where approved), including secure access, environment configuration, and integration into CI/CD workflows * Implement guardrails for GenAI usage (e.g., data handling, prompt/content logging where required, secrets protection, model/tool access controls) aligned to enterprise policies * Support reliability and observability for GenAI\-enabled services (e.g., monitoring latency, error rates, cost/usage, and drift/quality signals where applicable) **Core Skills** * Scripting/Programming: Bash, Python, Shell * CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps * Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes * Infrastructure as Code: Ansible, Terraform * Source Control: Git, Bitbucket * Security \& Compliance: Understanding of DevSecOps, secrets management, enterprise controls, and compliance * Familiarity with Jira and Confluence * GenAI/LLM Fundamentals: Understanding of LLM concepts (prompting, embeddings, RAG, model limitations), and how to apply them safely in engineering workflows * GenAI Tooling \& Integration: Experience using and integrating GenAI\-assisted tools (e.g., code assistants, chat\-based ops assistants) and/or APIs into developer/DevOps workflows * Responsible AI \& Data Handling: Awareness of privacy, IP, data classification, and secure usage patterns when working with GenAI tools in enterprise environments **Preferred** * Experience supporting GenAI platforms/services in production (e.g., model/API deployment patterns, prompt/version management, evaluation/monitoring, and cost controls)