Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Bristol (remote-first, 2x a month in office)
Salary: Up to £80,000 (depending on experience) + Benefits
NOTE: For this opportunity, you must be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC).
Are you an AWS-focused DevOps Engineer who enjoys building cloud infrastructure from the ground up, rather than simply maintaining existing environments?
We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a growing engineering team delivering bespoke software solutions for complex, large-scale programmes. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on greenfield and evolving platforms, helping shape cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, security, and platform engineering capabilities from day one.
What You'll Be Doing
Designing and building secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure from scratch
Developing Infrastructure as Code solutions using tools such as Terraform
Creating, deploying and managing Kubernetes-based platforms
Building and improving automated CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
Implementing monitoring, logging and observability solutions across cloud environments
Driving infrastructure best practices around security, resilience, compliance and disaster recovery
Optimising platforms for performance, availability and cost efficiency
Troubleshooting complex infrastructure and deployment challenges
Collaborating closely with software engineers, architects and technical stakeholders
Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to technical leadership within the team
What We're Looking For
5+ years' commercial experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering or Cloud Engineering role
Strong hands-on experience designing and building AWS infrastructure
Proven experience creating cloud platforms and infrastructure, not just supporting existing environments
Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform
Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker and containerised applications
Strong CI/CD experience using tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar
Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or Elastic Stack
Experience delivering highly available, secure and resilient cloud solutions
Familiarity with Agile delivery environments, including Scrum and Kanban
Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders
Desirable Experience
Packer, Vault, Artifactory or Nexus
Serverless technologies
Secure software delivery practices
Mentoring or technical leadership responsibilities
If you're an AWS DevOps Engineer who enjoys architecting and building cloud infrastructure, driving automation, and solving complex technical challenges, we'd love to speak with you. Apply now or reach out directly to Sarah McMahon for a confidential conversation.

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