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SDET Engineer (DevOps / Core AI)

Hybrid in Barking·Added today (last checked 28 Oct)

Our summary

Salary
£500 a day
Work mode
Hybrid, Barking
Contract
Contract role, outside IR35
Closing date
Apply by Tuesday 10 November

Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • Hands-on AWS expertise.
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Strong experience across DevOps, cloud infrastructure and automated testing.
  • Strong SDET and QA automation background.
  • Hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
  • Commercial experience working within AWS environments.
  • Experience supporting cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
  • Strong understanding of software delivery, testing and deployment practices.
  • Previous experience within regulated or enterprise environments (e.g. banking, financial services) desirable.

Nice to have

  • Exposure to AI/LLM-based systems and modern data platforms.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

Up to: £500 per day, Outside IR35 | 6 months initial project | Hybrid (2 days on-site p/w, London)

The role

The successful candidate will join our client's core engineering team, working directly with Data Engineering & AI teams to build and scale workflows across healthcare and life sciences. You'll help deliver enterprise-grade solutions for some of the world's largest pharmaceutical and medtech organisations, tackling complex data and workflow challenges with measurable business impact.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement automated testing frameworks (SDET).
  • Develop CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
  • Collaborate closely with AI Engineers and Data Engineers to deliver scalable solutions.
  • Build, automate and support AI/ML and data platforms in AWS.
  • Support deployment, monitoring and reliability of Agentic AI workflows.

Person Specification

  • Good understanding of software testing, quality engineering and automation.

Client Feedback: Required Skills & Experience

Ideal Candidate

  • Able to discuss infrastructure, architecture and automation in depth.
  • Confident working across development, testing and operations teams.
  • Proactive, hands-on and technically curious.
  • Comfortable operating in highly technical engineering environments.
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