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# Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS - Remote

- **Company:** Circle Recruitment
- **Location:** Birmingham, United Kingdom (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £60,000 - £70,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Amazon Web Services, Computing Platforms, Bash Shell, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Domain Name System (DNS), Github, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Enterprise Messaging Systems, Routing, Windows PowerShell, RabbitMQ, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Data Logging, Load Balancing, System Availability, Grafana, Firewalls (Computer Science), Cloudformation, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Deployment Automation, Apache Kafka, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Splunk, Devsecops, Docker
- **Published:** November 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/senior-devops-engineer-aws-remote/57567532

## About the Role

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.

## Description

* 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

Circle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Earn yourself a referral bonus if you refer somebody else who fills the role! We also offer an iPad if you refer a new client to us and we recruit for them. Follow us on Facebook - Circle Recruitment , Twitter - @Circle_Rec and LinkedIn - Circle Recruitment.

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)