DevOps Engineer AWS
Contract: Permanent
WFH: Remote (One office visit per month)
Location: Manchester, UK
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 (DOE)
I'm seeking a DevOps Engineer to help maintain and improve a multi-tenant cloud platform used across a large customer base. You’ll focus on reliability, automation, incident response, and improving deployment processes. This is a hands-on engineering role working across AWS, Terraform, Linux, and monitoring tools, while also supporting and mentoring a junior team member.
Responsibilities
* Maintain the stability, performance, and availability of 45+ cloud deployments
* Improve and modernise the Terraform-based deployment/update process
* Troubleshoot incidents, run post-mortems, and refine operational workflows
* Automate manual tasks using Linux, shell scripting, Terraform, and Ansible
* Support and mentor a junior engineer, providing structure and technical guidance
* Streamline AWS account provisioning and strengthen identity/permission models
Skills & Experience
* Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Terraform
* Solid Linux administration and scripting skills
* Confident troubleshooting, debugging, and handling incidents independently
* Experience with containerised workloads (Docker/ECS) and Git-based workflows
Nice to Have
* Familiarity with Ansible
* Exposure to observability tooling (Nagios, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
* Knowledge of AWS Control Tower or Identity Centre
* Experience in improving or automating multi-deployment environments