AWS DevOps Engineer

AWS Dev Ops Engineer with strong SRE skills to join a busy BAU operations team in West London (2 days per week on site).

You’ll be responsible for keeping mission‑critical platforms stable, secure, and performant while continually improving automation, observability, and reliability.

• Support and enhance AWS‑based production platforms in a BAU/SRE capacity
• Operate and optimise containerised workloads using AWS ECS and Kubernetes (K8s)
• Design, maintain and improve Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Implement and maintain configuration management via Ansible and Puppet
• Build, maintain and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub‑based workflows)
• Own and improve monitoring, logging and alerting using Grafana (and related tools such as Prometheus/Cloud Watch)
• Define, track and improve SLIs/SLOs and error budgets to drive reliability
• Participate in incident management, root cause analysis and post‑incident reviews
• Contribute to security, backup, DR and cost‑optimisation best practices on AWS
• Work closely with developers, QA and other stakeholders to ensure smooth releases and stable environments

• Strong, recent experience as a Dev Ops Engineer/SRE in production AWS environments
• Hands‑on experience with:
  • AWS ECS
  • Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
  • Ansible and/or Puppet for configuration management
  • Grafana for dashboards and observability (Prometheus, Loki, Cloud Watch, etc. a plus)
  • Git Hub (Actions or other CI/CD tooling built around Git Hub)
• Solid knowledge of Linux systems, networking and security fundamentals
• Experience running and supporting 24/7 production systems (on‑call or out‑of‑hours incident support a plus)
• Strong understanding of SRE principles – SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, capacity planning
• Good scripting skills (e.g. Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and tooling

• Exposure to Git Ops approaches (e.g. ArgoCD, Flux)
• Kubernetes, EKS
• Familiarity with AWS security best practices and compliance frameworks
• Experience in high‑availability, high‑traffic environments

• Length: 3‑month initial contract, likely until at least end 2026
• Extensions:
  Strong possibility of long‑term extensions based on performance and project needs
• Rate:
  Market rates, outside IR35
• Engagement:
  Outside IR35, 2 days per week ideally on site, West London

If you’re an AWS Dev Ops Engineer/SRE with solid experience across AWS ECS, K8s, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Grafana and Git Hub, and you’re keen on a BAU‑focused contract role with long‑term potential, please send your:

• CV/Resume
• Short note outlining relevant experience and availability
• Desired day rate (outside IR35)