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Location: Hybrid – Crawley or Peterborough
Reports To: VP of Engineering
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with a deep understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tooling such as Terraform, and configuration management using Ansible. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, passionate about Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, and thrive in collaborative environments.
You will play a pivotal role in automating infrastructure, improving reliability and scalability, and ensuring smooth CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments. You'll work closely with software engineering, and security teams to drive platform excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Automation
· Design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure on AWS using Terraform (modularized, reusable components).
· Implement configuration management solutions using Ansible, including playbook development, inventory structuring, and role-based automation.
· Manage secrets securely using services such as AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault.
SRE & Reliability
· Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
· Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and resilience improvements.
· Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, or Jenkins.
· Automate deployments for container-based workloads on ECS (Fargate), or Lambda, and manage supporting infrastructure.
· Collaborate with development teams to optimize build/deploy cycles and reduce lead time for changes.
Security & Compliance
· Ensure security best practices are embedded into infrastructure provisioning and pipeline execution.
· Support compliance and auditing by implementing guardrails and controls as code (e.g., AWS Config, SCPs, IAM policy management).
Required Skills and Experience
Technical Expertise
· 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles.
· Expertise in AWS core services: EC2, IAM, VPC, ECS/Fargate, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda.
· Strong proficiency in Terraform (HCL) – including workspaces, modules, and Terraform Cloud or similar.
· Ansible experience – developing roles, dynamic inventories, managing remote configurations.
· Strong scripting knowledge (Bash, Python, or Go).
· Experience with container orchestration and deployment (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes).
· Proficient with GitOps or IaC-based workflows.
SRE Mindset
· Familiarity with Google SRE practices, particularly around reliability, observability, and operational excellence.
· Understanding of systems reliability metrics and associated tooling.
Soft Skills & Behaviours
· Self-driven with a bias toward action and ownership.
· Excellent communicator, able to collaborate across disciplines and levels of technical understanding.
· Experience working as part of a cross-functional team.
· Comfortable working in agile environments (Scrum/Kanban).
Preferred Qualifications
· AWS certification (e.g., Solutions Architect – Professional, DevOps Engineer – Professional).
· Exposure to IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi), or configuration management (Ansible, Puppet).
· Experience in multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments (e.g., Azure, on-prem).
· Background in high-availability environments.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries
Software Development
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