AWS DevOps Engineer, SRE - Contract

Staffworx Ltd
London, United Kingdom
7 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

London, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Backup Devices
Bash
Configuration Management
Continuous Integration
Linux
DevOps
Disaster Recovery
Github
Python
Ansible
Prometheus
Software Engineering
Data Logging
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Enterprise Software Applications
Grafana
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Kubernetes
Cloudwatch
Puppet
Terraform

Job description

  • Support and enhance AWS-based production platforms in an Devops/SRE capacity
  • Operate and optimise containerised workloads using AWS ECS and Kubernetes/EKS
  • Own and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
  • Work with Ansible and Puppet for configuration management
  • Build, maintain and troubleshoot GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines
  • Monitoring, logging and alerting using Grafana, Prometheus and CloudWatch
  • Support incident management, root cause analysis and post-incident reviews
  • Contribute to AWS security, backup, disaster recovery and cost optimisation best practice
  • Work closely with software engineering teams to improve release quality, application resilience and production reliability

Requirements

  • Strong recent AWS EC2 DevOps/SRE experience in production environments
  • Hands-on experience with AWS ECS, Terraform, Ansible and/or Puppet
  • Strong Grafana experience, ideally with Prometheus or CloudWatch
  • GitHub or similar CI/CD experience
  • Solid Linux, networking and security fundamentals
  • Experience supporting 24/7 production systems
  • Good Scripting skills in Python, Bash or similar
  • Experience working with software engineering teams, deploying enterprise applications or familiarity with full stack software development life cycle
  • Kubernetes/EKS experience would be beneficial

Benefits & conditions

  • Initial 6-month contract
  • Strong extension potential
  • Outside IR35
  • 2 days per week on-site in West London
  • Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK

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