Salary: £18,000 - 19,800 per year Requirements: Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering. Strong hands-on experience with AWS. Strong hands-on experience with Docker and container-based deployments. Experience designing and operating infrastructure for production web applications. Experience with AWS ECS/Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache/Redis, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, ALB, and Secrets Manager. Experience with Cloudflare, especially DNS, WAF, rate limiting, and edge security. Strong experience with load balancers, ingress, routing, and production traffic management. Strong understanding of Linux, networking, reverse proxies, SSL/TLS, and infrastructure security. Strong security mindset with the ability to design and operate systems with secure-by-default principles. Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. Experience with database migrations, backup/restore, and rollback planning. Experience setting up logging, monitoring, health checks, and alerting for production systems. Ability to work independently, take ownership, and make practical infrastructure decisions. Good communication skills and ability to collaborate closely with an application engineer. Comfortable working in a spec-driven and AI-assisted workflow, including familiarity with tools such as Codex, Claude Code, or similar engineering assistants. Responsibilities: Own the AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure for the product. Design and implement production-ready deployment architecture for backend, frontend, PostgreSQL, Redis, and object storage. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for safe deployments, rollbacks, and environment promotion. Set up and manage secrets, environment configuration, certificates, DNS, and access controls. Define and maintain production-safe migration, backup, restore, and rollback procedures. Implement monitoring, alerting, health checks, logging, and operational dashboards. Improve security at the infrastructure and edge layers, including WAF, rate limiting, origin protection, and internal access controls. Design and manage traffic routing and availability using load balancers and related ingress components. Work closely with the full-stack engineer to make the application stable, deployable, and production-ready. Create clear runbooks for deployments, incidents, recovery, and day-to-day operations. Help shape scaling, resilience, and reliability strategy as usage grows. Technologies: AI AWS Backend CI/CD Claude Code CloudWatch DevOps Docker Frontend IAM Support Linux PostgreSQL Redis Security WAF Web Cloud More: We are Major Recruitment Oldbury, excited to support our international client in finding a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our team on a fully remote basis for an immediate start. This is a 2-4 month contract position that offers competitive daily rates. You will play a vital role in streamlining and securing our infrastructure as we continue to grow. last updated 19 week of 2026