Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

About The Role

Hippo is a rapidly growing digital consultancy passionate about building and delivering transformative digital solutions for a diverse range of Public and Private Sector clients. We are recruiting for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to join our Hippo Herd as part of our Managed Services Team. This is a pivotal role within our Engineering function, leading the charge in delivering value and driving automation for our clients.

As a Senior Dev Ops Engineer in our Managed Services Team, you will play an important role in making Hippo the best Consultancy out there. You will work alongside talented engineers, shaping robust, cloud-native systems. You will be an expert in your field, acting as a Senior Consultant providing technical expertise both internally and to our clients. You will drive the team's technical deliverables and be passionate about developing yourself and others.

You will act as a Senior Consultant to deliver Dev Ops services to our clients.
Senior Dev Ops Engineers at Hippo are experienced practitioners who lead the design of automated infrastructure, ensure technical excellence, and mentor others to maintain high standards of platform support.

Our solutions empower our customers to build and support secure, scalable, and well-engineered systems. We leverage deep data insights and continuous innovation to deliver platforms that allow our customers to get the most from their digital services.

The Senior Dev Ops Engineer (Managed Services) will be a key architect and implementer in this mission.

There is an on‑call requirement as part of our Managed Services Team. All applicants must be willing to be part of the rota.

Please note we are looking for candidates who are looking for growth at the Senior level; therefore, the advertised salary band represents the entry point for this level, allowing for clear progression within the role, which we are very keen to support.

• Demonstrate technical expertise within the Hippo’s Managed Services and wider engineering communities to ensure user‑centred, automated infrastructure is developed based on business requirements and best practices.
• Champion Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation in every aspect of the solution, ensuring repeatable and reliable deployments.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to explore, design, and deliver solutions to complex client problems.
• Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines, resolving issues and potential bottlenecks before they occur.
• Operate in a hands‑on environment, working with various AWS services, platforms, and frameworks.
• Coach and encourage the maintenance of standards in AWS architecture, CI/CD, testing, and platform support.
• Lead in the recruitment of other engineers and support consultants in their professional development through knowledge sharing.
• Ensure Hippo’s Managed Services, Dev Ops and Engineering communities contribute to the business at a strategic level.
• Promote Hippo’s Managed Services Herd externally through blogs, workshops, or conferences.

• Expert proficiency with AWS cloud services (including EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, and IAM).
• Strong experience with Python.
• Excellent experience in designing and maintaining robust pipelines using Git Lab CI/CD or Git Hub Actions, including debugging complex issues.
• Strong experience in the deployment and management of containerised applications using Amazon EKS (Kubernetes).
• Extensive experience utilising Terraform for complex infrastructure provisioning.
• Experience integrating and orchestrating testing tools (such as PyTest or Selenium) within automated pipelines.
• Deep experience with Docker for containerisation, image optimisation, and application packaging.
• Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, or AWS Cloud Watch.
• Experience implementing robust security practices, including AWS Secrets Manager, encryption, and IAM.
• Mastery of Agile methods and techniques such as Scrum, Kanban, and TDD.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, able to articulate in both technical and non‑technical terms depending on audience.