Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS - Remote

• Design, implement and maintain secure, highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Operate and support production and non-production environments across multiple products.
• Deliver infrastructure improvements, platform upgrades and cloud migration initiatives.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and/or Terraform.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Automate operational processes using scripting and configuration management tools.
• Monitor platform health, performance and security, proactively identifying improvements.
• Investigate and resolve complex infrastructure and application issues.
• Contribute to platform architecture and technical design decisions.
• Participate in operational support and incident management., Keywords: Senior DevOps Engineer / AWS / Terraform / CloudFormation / CI/CD / GitHub Actions / Platform Engineer / SRE / Remote / Manchester / Leeds / Birmingham / Bristol / London / Glasgow / Cardiff / Nottingham

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Skills

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Automation & Control Systems
• Cloud Services & Infrastructure
• Continuous Integration
• DevOps Engineering
• Docker Containerization
• Infrastructure Management
• Kubernetes
• Python Programming
• Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)

Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS with strong AWS, Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD experience is required by a global payments technology company. This is a fully remote role open to candidates based anywhere in the UK.

You’ll join the UK Platform Engineering team, taking operational ownership of critical customer-facing platforms.

Experience Required:

• 5+ years’ experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering in production environments.
• Strong experience administering AWS cloud environments.
• Experience managing both Linux and Windows infrastructure.
• Infrastructure as Code experience using CloudFormation and/or Terraform.
• Experience building and developing CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions.
• Automation experience using PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Strong networking fundamentals, including DNS, routing, load balancing and firewalls.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production environments.
• Good understanding of monitoring, logging and observability tools.
• Knowledge of security best practices and DevSecOps principles.

Desirable Experience:

• Container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes or Amazon ECS.
• Messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Splunk or similar logging platforms.
• AWS Systems Manager, IAM, Secrets Manager and CloudWatch.
• Experience in highly regulated or customer-facing production environments.
• AWS certifications.

This is a hands-on Senior DevOps position combining project delivery with day-to-day operational support across a diverse AWS-hosted estate. You will influence platform architecture and modernisation while ensuring high availability for customers, with career development and certification support on offer.

Salary - They are looking to pay a starting salary of between £60,000 - £70,000 + excellent benefits. Please note visa sponsorship is not available, and applicants must already have the right to work in the UK.