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Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) | Bristol (Hybrid) 3 days on site| £400- £500 OutsideIR35 | 6 month initial

This senior role offers the opportunity to join a well-established Bristol-based technology business operating at scale. Take technical ownership of AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for AI-enabled products, working closely with engineering and product teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and security.

Key requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, including designing, deploying and managing scalable, secure infrastructure.
• Proven expertise with terraform (Infrastructure as Code) for provisioning, automating and maintaining cloud environments.
• Extensive experience building and optimising CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated build, test and deployment processes.
• Solid understanding of API development, integration and management, including RESTful services and microservice architectures.
• Commercial experience developing applications using .NET and/or JavaScript, with the ability to collaborate across engineering teams.

·        Cloud Platforms: AWS (VPC, EC2, IAM, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, Route 53, Secrets Manager, SSM Parameter Store)

·        Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), Amazon ECS Fargate, Helm

·        Kubernetes Ecosystem: Karpenter, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), EKS Pod Identity, AWS Load Balancer Controller, cert-manager, ExternalDNS

·        CI/CD & GitOps: Harness, CircleCI, JetBrains TeamCity, ArgoCD

·        Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation

·        Databases: PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache (Redis)

·        Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, CloudWatch

·        Security & Code Quality: SonarQube, Veracode, Wiz

·        Artefact Management: JFrog Artifactory, Amazon ECR

·        Programming & Scripting: Python, Bash, Linux

·        Core Competencies: Cloud Architecture, Disaster Recovery, Platform Engineering, Incident Management, Cost Optimisation, DevSecOps