DevOps Engineer – Contract

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain AWS infrastructure as code, treating it similarly to application code through processes like review, testing, and version control.

• Enhance containerized workloads on ECS and Fargate, focusing on scaling, cost-efficiency, and service health.

• Automate repetitive tasks to minimize operational toil.

• Take ownership of and enhance CircleCI and GitHub Actions pipelines to ensure swift and reliable builds, tests, and deployments.

• Create and maintain operational runbooks.

• Configure and optimize New Relic for monitoring and alerting purposes.

• Engage in incident response, identify root causes, and implement necessary fixes.

• Contribute to backup, resilience, and disaster recovery initiatives, including conducting recovery tests.

• Implement security practices such as least-privilege IAM, secrets management, patching, network segmentation, and certificate handling.

• Assist in gathering evidence and managing controls for security and compliance requirements.

• Work collaboratively with product engineering, support, and security teams on platform decisions.

• Independently tackle tasks, diagnose incidents, and devise appropriate solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Mid-level experience in DevOps engineering.

• Strong hands-on experience with fundamental AWS services.

• Proficient in designing cloud-native systems utilizing containers, serverless components, and automation.

• Capable of reading, writing, and maintaining Go for internal tools.

• Practical experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or Pulumi, with a preference for Pulumi.

• Familiarity with Git workflows, pull request reviews, and GitHub Actions for CI/CD processes.

• Experience in configuring and integrating both off-the-shelf vendor products and internally developed tools.

• Understanding of security fundamentals, including IAM principles and least privilege, secrets management, basic networking (VPC, DNS, TLS, load balancing), and vulnerability management.

• Comfortable troubleshooting Linux and containerized workloads, as well as scripting repetitive tasks.

• Ability to manage workload effectively, prioritize tasks, and maintain visibility on progress.

• Communicate technical decisions or challenges clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

• Desirable but not mandatory: experience with Node.js or Ruby, Cloudflare, Octopus Deploy, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 controls, observability tools, incident management tools, and conducting blameless post-incident reviews.

🏝️ Benefits

• No specific benefits or compensation extras stated.