AWS DevOps Engineer

AWS DevOps Engineer

Salary: £75,000 - £80,000 plus benefits, pension & healthcare options

Location: UK Wide | Occasional travel to either central London or Manchester

Job Type: Permanent | Hybrid

Requirements: Active SC Clearance and Sole UK nationality

The Opportunity:

We're looking for experienced AWS Cloud Native DevOps Engineers to join engineering teams delivering secure, scalable and resilient cloud platforms.

You'll be working across complex, mission-critical environments, helping organisations modernise their technology estates through AWS, automation, Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps practices.

This is a hands-on engineering opportunity where you'll have the chance to solve challenging infrastructure problems, improve cloud platforms and work alongside experienced engineers, architects and technical stakeholders.

What You'll Be Doing:

Design, deploy and manage secure AWS cloud infrastructure

Build Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation or Pulumi

Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated delivery processes

Implement effective monitoring, logging and observability

Automate infrastructure and operational tasks through scripting

Work with Agile engineering teams, architects and stakeholders

Troubleshoot, optimise and continuously improve cloud environments

Implement cloud security best practices, including Zero Trust

Evaluate and adopt new cloud-native and DevOps technologies

What We're Looking For:

Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, ideally within secure or regulated environments

Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform, CloudFormation or Pulumi

Practical experience with CI/CD, using tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or ArgoCD

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash or PowerShell

Good understanding of AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancing and security groups

Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or CloudWatch

Understanding of cloud securit...