Senior DevOps Engineer

Hays plc
London, UK
11 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Bash Shell Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Security Cloud Engineering DevOps Identity and Access Management Python (Programming Language) Networking Basics Prometheus
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Software Engineering Datadog Grafana Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Gitlab Amazon Relational Database Service Kubernetes Deployment Automation Functional Programming Cloudwatch Terraform

Job description

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in building and maintaining a modern AWS platform, supporting critical cloud infrastructure and driving DevOps best practice across the engineering function. You’ll work closely with developers and platform teams to automate deployments, improve resilience, enhance observability and deliver secure, scalable cloud environments.This is a hands-on role focused on infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation and cloud engineering rather than software development.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC and CloudWatch
  • Proven experience with Kubernetes, ideally EKS
  • Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
  • Expertise building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab
  • Python and/or Bash scripting experience
  • Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus or Grafana
  • Strong understanding of cloud security and networking principles
  • Experience working within Agile delivery environments
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Financial services experience is beneficial but not essential

Benefits & conditions

What you’ll get in return

  • Hybrid working with 1-2 days per week onsite
  • Opportunity to work on a large-scale cloud-native platform
  • Exposure to AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and modern DevOps tooling
  • Fast-moving interview process
  • Immediate project demand with strong programme backing

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