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Abhijith A S
Devops Engineer
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Founding Contractor · 2026
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Primary specialism
Cloud & DevOps
Location / working location
Manchester
Current availability
Available now
Confirmed 18 Aug 2026
Profile status
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Professional profile
DevOps/Platform Engineer with 4.5+ years of experience designing, automating and operating secure, scalable production cloud environments across AWS and Azure. Strong hands-on expertise in Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS, Docker, CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD and GitOps. Experienced in infrastructure automation, cloud networking, IAM, security, observability, monitoring, incident response, disaster recovery and cost optimisation. Proven track record of building highly available platforms, improving deployment velocity and reliability, reducing MTTR, and standardising infrastructure across production environments. Strong working knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, AWS services, Python, Linux, SRE practices and event-driven architectures. Well suited to DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud and SRE roles requiring strong ownership, automation, troubleshooting and continuous improvement.
Core skills
AWS
Azure
Kubernetes
Ci
Cd
Docker
Linux
Observability
Automation
Security
Compliances
Jenkins
Git
Github
Argocd
What I’m looking for next
Target roles: DevSecOps · Platform Engineer · Devops Engineer · Site Reliability Engineer
Seeking DevOps, Platform, Infrastructure or SRE contract opportunities where I can leverage my 4.5+ years of experience across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD and GitOps. Particularly interested in cloud transformation, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, production reliability, observability and secure cloud-native environments. Open to challenging projects involving scalable, highly available and production-critical platforms, with opportunities to take ownership and deliver measurable improvements in reliability, automation and operational efficiency.
Contract preferences
Working preferenceRemote · Hybrid · On-site
Will workLondon,Manchester,Reading,Cambridge,Bristol,Birmingham,Leeds,Edinburgh,Oxford,Glasgow,Newcastle,Liverpool
IR35 preferenceOutside IR35 · Inside IR35
SenioritySenior
Contract lengthAny contract length
IT experience5 years
Contracting experience4 years
Available from24 Aug 2026
Relevant work experience
Senior DevOps Engineer – Design Direct, UK (Dec 2024–Present): Lead DevOps-as-a-Service engagements across AWS and Azure, designing and operating cloud-native platforms using Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps and Argo CD. Built reusable infrastructure modules, implemented GitOps and CI/CD automation, cloud security, IAM/RBAC, autoscaling, observability and disaster recovery. Reduced average time-to-production by ~60%, improved deployment efficiency by ~80%, and maintained 99.9% platform uptime SLOs across client environments. AWS DevOps Engineer – Infosys, India (Feb 2022–Nov 2024): Managed enterprise AWS environments and production EKS workloads across 10+ accounts, supporting 200+ engineers and 50K+ daily requests at 99.95% availability. Built Jenkins, Argo CD and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment lead time from 2 days to under 2 hours. Developed 20+ reusable Terraform modules, reducing environment provisioning effort by ~70%, and implemented IAM, Secrets Manager, security scanning and automated compliance controls. Supported an 82-microservice mission-critical platform with 99.99% uptime, reducing MTTR from ~90 to ~20 minutes through observability, tracing, incident response and reliability improvements.
Experience & credentials
Certifications, sector experience and security clearance are self-declared unless specifically marked as independently verified by IT Contractors UK.
Sector experience
Finatech · Educational Sectors · Real-estate
Certifications
Infosys Certified DevOps Professional · AWS Certified Developer Associate · Applied AI/ML-generative Professional
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