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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Lucid Support Services Ltd
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Salary:** £98,800.0 - £104,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Bash Shell, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, Nginx, Ansible, Prometheus, Scripting, Autoscaling, Grafana, Gitlab, Cloudformation, Gitlab-ci, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Route53, Terraform
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-4BCE4AB9DF4492BA76/

## About the Role

The successful candidate will work across AWS infrastructure, automation and CI/CD, helping to build, maintain and improve secure, reliable cloud environments. This role would suit a hands-on DevOps Engineer with strong Infrastructure as Code experience and a good understanding of AWS compute, networking, security and storage services.

## Description

* Build, maintain and improve AWS cloud infrastructure and environments.
 * Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible.
 * Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
 * Support AWS compute infrastructure including EC2 and Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs).
 * Configure and manage AWS networking and security services including Route 53, Security Groups and IAM.
 * Manage and support S3 storage.
 * Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment and environment issues.
 * Work collaboratively with engineering and delivery teams within a secure Agile environment.
 * Support the automation, reliability and continuous improvement of cloud platforms.

Essential Skills & Experience:

 * Strong commercial AWS experience.
 * Terraform.
 * Ansible.
 * GitLab/GitLab CI/CD.
 * AWS EC2 and Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs).
 * Route 53.
 * AWS Security Groups and IAM.
 * Amazon S3.
 * Strong understanding of DevOps, Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD principles.

Desirable Skills:

 * Bash and/or Python Scripting.
 * Kong CE/EE.
 * Nginx.
 * Prometheus.
 * Grafana.
 * Alertmanager.
 * Amazon ECS.
 * Amazon ECR.
 * AWS Certificate Manager (ACM).
 * AWS Key Management Service (KMS).
 * AWS CloudFormation.


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