Senior/Lead AWS DevOps Engineer
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Title: Senior/Lead AWS DevOps Contractor
Contract Length: 3 months - Immediate Start - Outside IR35
Location: Remote (UK)
Description:
We're looking for a highly experienced Senior/Lead DevOps Contractor to operate at a senior level, driving architectural decisions, leading delivery, and ensuring secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure across the environment.
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Lead to manage a critical cloud migration project, moving a mature platform from AWS to Hetzner to achieve significant cost reduction. This short-term, high-priority role will oversee the migration, maintain operational stability, and lead a small DevOps team.
The platform currently runs on AWS with ECS, k3s Kubernetes, Redpanda streaming, and databases including Cassandra, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Observability is mostly implemented with Grafana, and deployment pipelines are established.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the migration of infrastructure from AWS to Hetzner, ensuring minimal disruption and cost optimisation.
- Oversee day-to-day platform operations during and after migration.
- Champion DevOps best practices including automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
- Drive improvements in reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Mentor and manage 2 DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance and leadership.
- Collaborate with development, product, and operations teams to align migration and DevOps strategy with business goals.
Skills & Experience Required
- Extensive experience in DevOps or platform engineering, ideally in senior or lead roles.
- Strong expertise with AWS and experience migrating workloads to alternative cloud providers like Hetzner.
- Proven ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/k3s).
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging systems (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and Scripting (Terraform, Python, Bash).
- Ability to work independently on complex projects and deliver results quickly.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and collaboration skills.
Additional Information
- Focus on AWS-to-Hetzner migration, operational stability, and cost optimisation.
- Role has direct financial impact on cloud spending and platform efficiency.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in DevOps or platform engineering, ideally in senior or lead roles.
- Strong expertise with AWS and experience migrating workloads to alternative cloud providers like Hetzner.
- Proven ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/k3s).
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging systems (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and Scripting (Terraform, Python, Bash).
- Ability to work independently on complex projects and deliver results quickly.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and collaboration skills.
