The DevOps Engineer will build and manage CI/CD pipelines, maintain environments, implement testing frameworks, and collaborate with teams on deployment workflows.
FTC or Permanent
UK-wide, Remote
About the role
Olive Jar Digital is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support the delivery of multiple AI-focused initiatives through Discovery and Alpha. You will design and maintain automated deployment pipelines, ensure environments are reliable and secure, and enable smooth integration of prototypes and services.
This role suits someone who enjoys building strong engineering foundations, improving developer workflows, and supporting rapid iteration in multidisciplinary teams.
About You
Benefits
UK-wide, Remote
About the role
Olive Jar Digital is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support the delivery of multiple AI-focused initiatives through Discovery and Alpha. You will design and maintain automated deployment pipelines, ensure environments are reliable and secure, and enable smooth integration of prototypes and services.
This role suits someone who enjoys building strong engineering foundations, improving developer workflows, and supporting rapid iteration in multidisciplinary teams.
About Olive Jar Digital
As we grow, we empower our teams to develop their roles and functions and offer support to get you from where you are now, to where you want to be. Moving towards our 11th year, we are now an established brand, building digital products and services and championing the provision of expert talent to enhance customer and in-house teams, satisfying all user needs.
We are a professional, fun, fully Inclusive and diverse digital consultancy, valuing everyone’s opinion. With a huge growth plan over the next two years, we are looking to expand our client facing delivery team with designers, developers, and testers as we continue to expand our project portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Build and refine automated CI/CD pipelines for deploying AI prototypes, APIs, and supporting services.
- Maintain development, testing, and staging environments, ensuring stability, observability, and security best practice.
- Implement automated testing frameworks, including unit, integration, and regression checks within the deployment pipeline.
- Set up and manage telemetry, monitoring, and logging solutions to support performance, debugging, and evaluation activities.
- Collaborate with software developers, ML engineers, and data scientists to streamline deployment and integration workflows.
- Produce and maintain documentation such as runbooks, environment guides, and pipeline configurations.
- Support governance activities, including contributing to security reviews and remediation where required.
- Contribute to knowledge transfer, technical demonstrations, and delivery artefact handovers.
About You
- Strong experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based deployment workflows.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code, containerisation, and cloud-native services.
- Skilled in monitoring, logging, telemetry, and automated testing integration.
- Ability to collaborate closely with multidisciplinary engineering and product teams.
- Strong understanding of secure engineering practices and environment management.
Benefits
- 25 Days Annual Leave per annum (plus 8 Bank Holidays as standard)
- Health Insurance
- Pension Scheme
- Annual Bonus Scheme
- Annual Salary Review
- Electric Car Scheme
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