DevOps Engineer

Dev Ops Engineer – Cloud & Automation

As a Dev Ops Engineer, you’ll play a key role in building and maintaining a robust, scalable, and reliable 0-downtime platform. You’ll work hands‑on with a recently kick‑started greenfield initiative with modern infrastructure and automation tools to support our engineering teams.

This is a great opportunity to work with a forward‑thinking team, and the freedom to approach problems with fresh thinking, embedding AI and automation and helping shape our cloud‑native journey.

If you’re passionate about automation, cloud infrastructure, and delivering high‑quality production‑grade platforms, this role offers the chance to make a real impact.

• Hands‑On Development – Design, implement, and optimise AWS infrastructure through hands‑on development using Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Automation & CI/CD – Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate fast, secure and seamless deployments.
• Platform Reliability – Ensure high availability, scalability, and resilience of our platform, leveraging managed services.
• Monitoring & Observability – Implement and manage proactive observability using Data Dog and other tools to monitor system health, performance, and security.
• Cloud Security & Best Practices – Apply cloud and security best practices, including patching and secure configuration of networking, encryption (at rest and in transit), secrets and identity/access management.
• Continuous Improvement – Contribute ideas and solutions to improve our Dev Ops processes.
• AI & Future Tech – Explore embedding AI into our Dev Ops processes.

• Tech stack – Experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, Python, Bash, AWS (EKS, Lambda, EC2, RDS/Aurora), Linux OS & Git Hub Actions. Strong hands‑on experience with Terraform and IaC principles, CI/CD and the AWS ecosystem.
• Networking – Proven experience with VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, API Gateway, Load Balancing, WAF, and Cloud configuration (Secrets Manager, IAM, KMS).
• Kubernetes – Comfortable with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Istio & deployment strategies (blue/green & canary).
• Cloud Security Services – Familiarity with Security Hub, Guard Duty, Inspector and vulnerability management/patching.
• Observability – Experience with Data Dog (or similar) to ensure teams have visibility into platform health and security.
• AI – Experience with embedding AI into Dev Ops processes is advantageous.

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on‑going success.