Devops Engineer

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

We're looking for a Dev Ops Engineer to join a growing technology team responsible for building, supporting and evolving critical cloud platforms.

This role sits at the heart of a modern AWS environment, helping to ensure systems remain secure, resilient and highly available while supporting continuous delivery and operational excellence. You'll work across cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response and platform reliability, collaborating closely with engineering teams to improve how applications are built, deployed and supported.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, reducing manual processes through automation and contributing to the ongoing evolution of cloud-native platforms.

What You'll Be Doing

* Managing and supporting AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda and networking components.

* Building, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines using AWS Code Pipeline, Code Build and related tooling.

* Supporting containerised application deployments using Docker and Amazon ECS.

* Automating operational processes using Python, Shell scripting and AWS-native services.

* Implementing Infrastructure as Code using Cloud Formation, AWS CDK and/or Terraform.

* Monitoring platform performance, availability and system health.

* Supporting incident response, root cause analysis and continuous service improvement.

Skills & Experience

Essential

* Commercial experience in a Dev Ops, Cloud Engineering or Platform Engineering role.

* Strong AWS experience across core services including EC2, S3, RDS, IAM and Cloud Watch.

* Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines.

* Hands-on experience with AWS Code Pipeline and Code Build.

* Experience deploying and supporting containerised workloads using Docker and ECS.

* Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code principles and tools.

* Experience with Cloud Formation and/or AWS CDK.

* Scripting experience using Python and/or Shell.

* Strong understanding of monitoring, logging and observability.

* Experience using Git-based source control workflows.

* Strong

* Experience with Linux administration and troubleshooting.

Desirable

* Terraform experience.

* AWS Lambda and serverless architecture experience.

* Jenkins, Git Hub Actions or alternative CI/CD tooling.

* Experience with in regulated environments such as Financial Services or Insurance.

* Knowledge of release management and change control processes.

What's in It for You?

* Opportunity to work with modern AWS technologies.

* Exposure to cloud-native engineering and platform automation.

* Collaborative engineering culture with opportunities to contribute ideas and improvements.

* Ongoing learning and professional development.

* A role where you can have a genuine impact on the reliability and evolution of critical systems.

Please note:

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK