Full job description

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

Salary: £50,000-£70,000

Work Pattern: Remote First - UK Based & occasional days in the Manchester office.

Benefits:

• Performance Bonus
• Fully Remote Working
• Flexible Working Hours
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Career Development
• Collaborative Culture

This client is looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join their growing engineering team. This is a hands-on role focused on supporting and evolving a large-scale AWS environment while driving Infrastructure as Code, automation and DevOps best practices.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Manage and enhance a complex AWS cloud environment, ensuring the reliability, performance and scalability of core platform infrastructure.
• Design and deliver new cloud solutions and infrastructure enhancements to support continued business growth and increasing customer demand.

Key Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Cloud or Platform Engineering role.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and supporting AWS environments at scale.
• Expertise with Terraform and IaC.
• Strong Linux administration and Bash/Shell scripting skills.
• Strong understanding of Git and CI/CD principles.
• Experience optimising cloud infrastructure for performance, resilience and cost efficiency.

Key Skills:

• AWS (ECS, Auto Scaling Groups, ALB, CloudFront, Lambda, RDS Aurora, ElastiCache, Redshift, S3, MSK, Control Tower)
• Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
• Linux (Ubuntu)
• Bash/Shell scripting
• Docker
• PHP 7/8
• SQL, MySQL & PostgreSQL
• ETL and data integration
• Git & CI/CD

If you are interested, please apply now!

·        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