Devops Engineer - AWS WITH GO OR NODE.JS

Devops Engineer (Mid Level with approx.5-7 years experience in DevOps) supports the organisation by building, running, and evolving the platform infrastructure it depends on. The role focuses on improving how infrastructure is built, deployed, and operated, working closely with product engineering. ROLE IS 100% REMOTE WORKING FOR THE 6 MONTH DURATION., * Build and maintain AWS infrastructure as code (reviewed, tested, versioned)

• Optimise ECS and Fargate workloads for scaling, cost, and service health
• Automate repeat work to remove toil from the team
• Own and improve CircleCI and GitHub Actions pipelines for build/test/deploy speed and predictability
• Write and maintain runbooks to keep operational knowledge within the team
• Set up and tune monitoring and alerting in New Relic
• Participate in incident response, establish root cause, and deliver follow-up fixes
• Contribute to backup, resilience, and disaster recovery work (including recovery testing)
• Apply least privilege IAM, secrets handling, patching, network segmentation, and certificate management
• Support evidence gathering and control work for security and compliance obligations
• Work closely with product engineering, support and security on platform decisions

• Solid hands-on experience with core AWS services and designing cloud native systems built on containers, serverless components and automation
• Experience optimising containerised workloads on ECS and Fargate (scaling, cost, service health)
• Practical experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code with Terraform or Pulumi (Pulumi preferred)
• Able to read, write and maintain GOLANG (Go) (mainly for internal tooling). NODE.JS will be considered if candidate has no Golang (GO)
• Confident with Git workflows, pull request reviews and GitHub Actions for CI/CD
• Experience owning and improving CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI and GitHub Actions)
• Monitoring and alerting setup/tuning in New Relic
• Security fundamentals: least privilege IAM, secrets handling, patching, network segmentation and certificate management
• Networking basics (VPC, DNS, TLS, load balancing) and vulnerability management
• Comfortable troubleshooting Linux and containerised workloads, including Scripting to remove repetitive tasks

Nice to Have

• Some Node.js or Ruby experience
• Cloudflare (DNS, WAF, CDN)
• Octopus Deploy
• Experience working within SOC 2 or ISO 27001 controls
• Observability tooling such as New Relic, Datadog or similar
• Experience with incident management tooling and blameless post-incident reviews, * Based in London/Remote
• Solid hands-on experience with core AWS services
• Practical experience with Terraform or Pulumi (Pulumi preferred)
• Able to read, write and maintain Go (NodeJS also considered)
• Confident with Git workflows and GitHub Actions for CI/CD
• Comfortable troubleshooting Linux and containerised workloads
• A good grasp of core security fundamentals including IAM/least privilege, secrets management, VPC/DNS/TLS/load balancing, and vulnerability management