AWS DevOps Engineer, contract, West London ( 2 days week on site ) AWS DevOps Engineer with strong SRE skills to join a busy BAU operations team. You'll be responsible for keeping mission-critical platforms stable, secure, and performant while continually improving automation, observability, and reliability. This is a hands-on contract role working across AWS, containers, IaC and CI/CD tooling. Ideal for someone who enjoys owning environments end-to-end and thrives in a fast-paced, production-focused setting. Key Responsibilities Support and enhance AWS-based production platforms in a BAU/SRE capacity Operate and optimize containerised workloads using AWS ECS and Kubernetes (K8) Design, maintain and improve Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Implement and maintain configuration management via Ansible and Puppet Build, maintain and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines (GitHub-based workflows) Own and improve monitoring, logging and alerting using Grafana (and related tools such as Prometheus/CloudWatch) Define, track and improve SLIs/SLOs and error budgets to drive reliability Participate in incident management, root cause analysis and post-incident reviews Contribute to security, backup, DR and cost-optimisation best practices on AWS Work closely with developers, QA and other stakeholders to ensure smooth releases and stable environments Key Skills & Experience Essential: Strong, recent experience as a DevOps Engineer/SRE in production AWS environments Hands-on experience with: AWS ECS Terraform for Infrastructure as Code Ansible and/or Puppet for configuration management Grafana for dashboards and observability (Prometheus, Loki, CloudWatch etc. a plus) GitHub (Actions or other CI/CD tooling built around GitHub) Solid knowledge of Linux systems, networking and security fundamentals Experience running and supporting 24/7 production systems (on-call or out-of-hours incident support a plus) Strong understanding of SRE principles - SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, capacity planning Good Scripting skills (eg Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and tooling Nice to Have: Exposure to GitOps approaches (eg ArgoCD, Flux) Kubernetes, EKS Familiarity with AWS security best practices and compliance frameworks Experience in high-availability, high-traffic environments Contract Details Length: 3-month initial contract, likely contract until at least end 2026 Extensions: Strong possibility of long-term extensions based on performance and project needs Rate: Market rates, outside IR35 Engagement: Outside IR35, 2 days week ideally on site, West London How to Apply If you're an AWS DevOps Engineer/SRE with solid experience across AWS ECS, K8s, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Grafana and GitHub, and you're keen on a BAU-focused contract role with long-term potential, please send your: CV/Resume Short note outlining relevant experience and availability Desired day rate (outside IR35)