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# Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Searchability
- **Location:** South Croydon, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £156,000 - £188,500
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Encodings, Continuous Integration, Identity and Access Management, Octopus Deploy, Systems Development Life Cycle, Ansible, Scripting, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Gitlab, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Route53, Terraform, Docker, Static Application Security Testing, Artifactory, Dynamic Application Security Testing
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/senior-aws-devops-engineer/57460542

## About the Role

* Proven experience implementing and supporting AWS cloud infrastructure.
 * Strong knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, Route 53, VPC, PrivateLink/VPC Endpoints, ELB, Secrets Manager, IAM, RDS and Control Tower.
 * Hands-on experience developing and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
 * Practical experience implementing security testing within CI/CD pipelines, including SCA, SAST and DAST.
 * Experience deploying and managing containerised applications using Docker Compose and Kubernetes/EKS.
 * Experience with Argo CD or an equivalent GitOps tool.
 * Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform.
 * Experience with configuration management and automation using Ansible.
 * Experience supporting JFrog Artifactory and Xray.
 * Experience administering on-premises GitLab environments and GitLab Runners.
 * Scripting skills and the ability to develop and maintain Dockerfiles, Terraform configurations and Ansible playbooks.
 * Willingness to participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota for Priority 1 and Priority 2 incidents., * CI
 * RDS
 * AWS
 * EC2
 * CD
 * Route 53
 * VPC
 * Control Tower
 * GitLab
 * NSD

## Description

As an AWS DevOps Engineer, you will support the implementation and maintenance of cloud infrastructure, automate deployments and embed security throughout the software delivery lifecycle. You will work across AWS services, infrastructure as code, containerised applications and CI/CD tooling, helping to maintain secure and reliable platforms., * Supporting and advising on AWS cloud implementation, including EC2, Route 53, VPC, VPC Endpoints/PrivateLink, Elastic Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, IAM, RDS and Control Tower.

 * Implementing and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines, embedding shift-left security practices including SCA, SAST and DAST.
 * Developing application CI/CD pipelines for containerised applications using Docker Compose on EC2 and Kubernetes via EKS, with Argo CD or an equivalent GitOps operator.
 * Building and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform.
 * Automating configuration and orchestration using Ansible.
 * Supporting self-managed JFrog Artifactory and Xray instances.
 * Maintaining an on-premises GitLab server and a fleet of GitLab Runners using different executors.
 * Writing scripts and developing Docker, Terraform and Ansible files to support a range of systems and frameworks.
 * Participating in an out-of-hours on-call service to support Priority 1 and Priority 2 incidents.