6 month contract - Inside IR35 - Banking
Senior AWS Infrastructure DevOps Engineer (Hands-On Role)
Take a hands-on lead role in designing, implementing, and optimising secure, scalable AWS infrastructure to support cloud-native applications. Champion DevOps best practices, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate across functions to drive automation, reliability, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Architect and manage AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
2. Lead the hands-on development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and ArgoCD.
3. Design and operate containerised workloads with EKS, Fargate, and Kubernetes.
4. Manage Kubernetes deployments using Helm charts.
5. Implement observability solutions using OpenTelemetry (OTel), Grafana, and Splunk.
6. Optimise infrastructure with Karpenter for autoscaling and cost efficiency.
7. Ensure robust AWS networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Route 53) and enforce security best practices.
8. Drive incident response, monitoring, and performance tuning.
Key Technologies: AWS (EKS, Fargate, EC2, S3), Terraform, CloudFormation, GitLab, ArgoCD, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Cassandra, OTel, Grafana, Splunk, Karpenter, Python, Bash.
Desirable: Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Apigee Hybrid, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.