Senior DevOps Engineer

As part of the Platform Engineering team, you'll help drive the evolution of a cloud-native environment, focusing on infrastructure automation, containerisation and platform reliability. This role would suit someone who enjoys designing scalable cloud platforms, automating infrastructure, and continually improving engineering practices.

Required skills:

At least 3+ years experience in a Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer or DevOps Engineer position

Strong hands-on AWS experience, including designing highly available and resilient cloud environments

Proven experience working with AWS ECS and container-based workloads

Experience delivering container migration projects

Strong knowledge of AWS services covering compute, networking, databases and security

Commercial experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Hands-on experience implementing and managing Datadog

Strong scripting skills using Python and/or Bash

Good understanding of cloud security, container security and infrastructure best practices

Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering teams

Comfortable managing multiple priorities within an Agile delivery environment

Key responsibilities & duties include:

Design, implement and support scalable AWS infrastructure

Lead the migration of containerised applications to AWS ECS

Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions

Configure and optimise monitoring, alerting and observability using Datadog

Partner with software engineering teams to streamline deployments and improve platform usability

Ensure security, resilience and operational best practices are embedded across the platform

Troubleshoot infrastructure and production issues while driving long-term improvements

Contribute to platform architecture and cloud engineering standards

Support continuous improvement initiatives across automation, performance and reliability