Senior DevOps Engineer, AWS Platform

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

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and oversee AWS infrastructure utilizing Terraform, emphasizing reusable modules and standardization.

• Manage and enhance AWS services, which include ECS, EC2, Lambda, SQS/DLQ, CloudWatch, and IAM.

• Create and refine CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CodeDeploy) to ensure consistent and reliable deployments.

• Develop and improve observability frameworks (logging, monitoring, alerting) across distributed systems.

• Implement and oversee identity and access controls, including SSO and access brokering.

• Collaborate with the Security team on platform hardening and integration with security tools (e.g., SIEM, DLP).

• Engage in platform engineering initiatives.

• Lead cost optimization initiatives across AWS (rightsizing, reserved capacity, scaling strategies, and cost visibility).

• Diagnose production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement enduring solutions.

• Continuously enhance infrastructure through automation, documentation, and adherence to best practices.

• Collaborate closely with the Engineering team to design, deploy, secure, and maintain containerization and deployment consistently.

• Work with Compliance teams on PCI DSS, ISO27001, and SOC2 standards to ensure infrastructure compliance.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience as a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer within AWS environments.

• In-depth hands-on knowledge of AWS services (ECS, EC2, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, etc.).

• Strong understanding of AWS networking (VPC design, routing, security groups, NACLs, private/public architectures).

• Proven experience with Terraform, including the development of reusable modules.

• Willingness to engage with and experience in infrastructure-as-code methodologies, with a preference for Terraform but other IaC tools are also acceptable.

• Solid grasp of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and cloud best practices.

• Experience in designing and managing multi-region architectures.

• Strong CI/CD proficiency (GitHub Actions, CodeDeploy, or equivalent).

• Experience with identity and access management, including SSO.

• Strong knowledge of Linux and containerization (Docker, ECS).

• Experience in building and maintaining observability and monitoring systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary starting at 68,000+ DOE.

• Flexible working hours and a remote-first approach.

• Work-from-abroad flexibility.

• 28 days of holiday plus bank holidays.

• Private medical insurance (including dependants).

• Pension contributions.

• Support for training, certifications, and professional development.