Lead / Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Opportunity - Inside IR35 UK WideThe Bridge IT are supporting a flagship digital transformation programme, seeking experienced Senior and Lead DevOps Engineers to join established engineering teams. This is a long-term contract with significant scope for impact, working on critical national services.Day rate: £625 £650 p/d (Inside IR35)Location: Hybrid with occasional travel to sites across the UKDuration: Until March 2026 (initial), with expectation of 12-month extensionClearance: SC Clearance required (will sponsor if needed)The Role:You will be part of cross-functional teams delivering and maintaining large-scale digital platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, and resilience. The role requires a blend of technical depth and leadership capability particularly in automation, observability, and mentoring team members.Key Skills and Experience: DevOps/SRE experience (5+ years) ownership of projects, strong automation and Infrastructure-as-Code approach, incident management, and leadership of initiatives. Terraform production use including modules, state management, and AWS integration. Kafka experience with production clusters, scaling, tuning, troubleshooting, and event-driven systems. MongoDB strong admin experience including replication, sharding, tuning, and backups. Monitoring/Observability Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, with strong alerting/SLO design. AWS expertise across EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, ALB/NLB, and cost op