Role Title: AWS DevOps Engineer
Location: Sheffield (Hybrid – 2 days per week onsite)
Role Category: Inside IR35
Overview:
We’re recruiting for an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to join an enterprise engineering team within a leading global financial services organisation.
This role offers the opportunity to work on large-scale AWS environments, combining cloud infrastructure, software engineering, automation, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. You’ll work closely with engineering, architecture, cybersecurity and operations teams to deliver secure, resilient and highly available cloud-native solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, networking and IAM services.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and other automation tools.
- Build and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
- Develop automation and backend services using Python and Golang.
- Design and maintain RESTful APIs, microservices and distributed cloud-native applications.
- Work with Docker, Kubernetes and serverless technologies across AWS environments.
- Support relational and NoSQL databases, including database schema and deployment changes.
- Implement and maintain database change management using Liquibase or similar tooling.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and distributed tracing using technologies such as Splunk, ELK, Prometheus and Grafana.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis and implement solutions to improve reliability and performance.
- Work closely with architects, developers, infrastructure and cybersecurity teams to support enterprise cloud platforms.
- Ensure cloud infrastructure and applications comply with security, governance, risk and regulatory requirements.
- Contribute to technical design, automation, continuous improvement and operational procedures.
- Support Agile delivery and contribute as a technical SME across cloud and DevOps initiatives.
Required Skills
- Proven experience in a DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering or Software Engineering role.
- Strong hands‑on experience with AWS in an enterprise environment.
- Strong understanding of AWS compute, storage, networking and IAM services.
- Strong Python development or automation experience.
- Proven experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI or equivalent.
- Strong experience with Linux, Docker and containerised environments.
- Experience with Kubernetes and/or serverless technologies.
- Experience developing RESTful APIs, microservices and distributed systems.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with messaging, streaming or integration services.
- Strong experience with cloud monitoring, logging and alerting.
- Good understanding of cloud security, authentication, encryption and IAM.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem‑solving and production support experience.
- Experience working within Agile environments.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Desirable Skills
- Proficiency in Golang.
- Experience with Liquibase or similar database change management tools.
- AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Developer or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.
- Experience with GCP or other public cloud platforms.
- Experience working within financial services or other regulated environments.
- Strong software engineering background combined with infrastructure experience.
- Experience with Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana or distributed tracing.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps, cloud governance and regulatory controls.
- Experience with non‑functional testing and continuous testing practices.
- Experience with messaging and streaming technologies.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a high‑performing engineering team supporting enterprise‑scale AWS environments, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure, Python development, automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud‑native engineering and secure software delivery.
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