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# AWS DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Opus Recruitment Solutions
- **Location:** Hounslow, UK
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Github, Cloud Services, Software Vulnerability Management, Data Logging, Delivery Pipeline, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** September 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/jobad/gbcc3aa2425ec54f7f4d187ffc66c7956a

## About the Role

* Strong hands-on AWS experience across cloud infrastructure and services.
 * Proven expertise with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
 * Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines within modern engineering environments.
 * Solid knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS.
 * Experience with monitoring, observability, and production support practices.
 * Good understanding of cloud security principles and vulnerability management.
 * Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
 * Passion for automation, DevOps culture, and continuous improvement.
 * Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage effectively across technical teams.

Desirable

 * Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments.
 * Knowledge of GitHub Actions and modern deployment strategies.
 * Exposure to platform engineering and cloud-native architectures.

## Description

We're supporting a leading organisation in their search for an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to join a growing cloud and platform team. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building, automating, and supporting modern cloud infrastructure while driving best practice across DevOps, platform engineering, and software delivery.
You'll play a key role in enhancing platform reliability, improving deployment processes, and enabling development teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions at pace.
Key Responsibilities

 * Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
 * Build and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
 * Develop, optimise, and support CI/CD pipelines, promoting automation and engineering best practices.
 * Deploy and manage containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
 * Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions to improve platform performance and resilience.
 * Support production environments, investigate incidents, and perform root cause analysis.
 * Champion security best practices across cloud infrastructure, applications, and deployment pipelines.
 * Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual processes and improve operational efficiency.
 * Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and wider technical teams to deliver robust cloud solutions.
 * Contribute to continuous improvement of platform standards, tooling, and engineering processes.


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