Our Financial Services client is looking for a highly skilled Infrastructure Devops engineer to join their edinburgh or london based team for a 6 months initial contract. THIS ROLE SITS INSIDE IR35 Highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer to design, deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure. Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS - Must have, GCP - Nice to have) and a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation, and networking principles. Focus on ensuring high availability, performance, and security of cloud environments while optimising resource utilisation. Automate cloud infrastructure deployments and management processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual interventions. Implement and manage networking solutions, including VPC, subnets, VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers. Ensure cloud environments meet security best practices, including IAM, encryption and auditing. Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible. Automate repetitive tasks and ensure seamless cloud provisioning, scaling, and updates. Set up and maintain monitoring solutions to track the health and performance of cloud infrastructure. Implement performance tuning strategies for cloud resources, optimising both cost and resource utilisation. Provide troubleshooting and support for cloud infrastructure issues, ensuring minimal downtime. Help monitor cloud usage and cost, suggesting optimisation to reduce overheads and improve resource allocation. Stays up to date on pricing models for AWS, and GCP to ensure cost-efficient cloud usage. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues. Experience with containerised environments and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes (EKS). Experience of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. Build and maintain automated infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and monitoring systems. Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, testing, and deployments using tools like Jenkins, Teamcity or GitLab. Implement monitoring and logging solutions (eg CloudWatch, Splunk) to ensure high availability and performance. Troubleshoot issues in pipeline and cloud infrastructure, resolving them quickly. Ensure security best practices are embedded throughout the CI/CD pipeline and cloud infrastructure. Nice to have - Familiarity with Apigee Hybrid/X, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.