DevOps Engineer

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to join a growing technology team responsible for building, supporting and evolving critical cloud platforms.

This role sits at the heart of a modern AWS environment, helping to ensure systems remain secure, resilient and highly available while supporting continuous delivery and operational excellence. You'll work across cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response and platform reliability, collaborating closely with engineering teams to improve how applications are built, deployed and supported.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, reducing manual processes through automation and contributing to the ongoing evolution of cloud-native platforms., * Managing and supporting AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda and networking components.

• Building, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild and related tooling.
• Supporting containerised application deployments using Docker and Amazon ECS.
• Automating operational processes using Python, Shell scripting and AWS-native services.
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation, AWS CDK and/or Terraform.
• Monitoring platform performance, availability and system health.
• Supporting incident response, root cause analysis and continuous service improvement.
• Collaborating with developers, testers and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions.
• Contributing to platform reliability, disaster recovery and cloud cost optimisation initiatives.
• Producing technical documentation, operational procedures and runbooks., * Opportunity to work with modern AWS technologies.
• Exposure to cloud-native engineering and platform automation.
• Collaborative engineering culture with opportunities to contribute ideas and improvements.
• Ongoing learning and professional development.
• A role where you can have a genuine impact on the reliability and evolution of critical systems., Gary leads our tech recruitment team. He has been in recruitment for 14 years and got into it by chance after being made redundant in a previous role. For the past 6 years he has headed up Tech Divisons in a range of recruitment companies covering both the perm and contract market in the North-East. Gary recently joined Jackson Hogg and is really excited to grow and elevate our tech profile in the North-East. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with his kids and family and is a big West Ham Supporter, for his sins.

• Commercial experience in a DevOps, Cloud Engineering or Platform Engineering role.
• Strong AWS experience across core services including EC2, S3, RDS, IAM and CloudWatch.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild.
• Experience deploying and supporting containerised workloads using Docker and ECS.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code principles and tools.
• Experience with CloudFormation and/or AWS CDK.
• Scripting experience using Python and/or Shell.
• Experience with Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging and observability.
• Experience using Git-based source control workflows.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills., * Terraform experience.
• AWS Lambda and serverless architecture experience.
• Jenkins, GitHub Actions or alternative CI/CD tooling.
• Experience within regulated environments such as Financial Services or Insurance.
• Knowledge of release management and change control processes.
• Experience supporting production platforms and critical business applications.