Senior Devops with AWS - Contractor

Are you a cloud infrastructure expert looking for your next challenge? Join our team as a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer and help us build resilient, scalable, and secure cloud solutions. You will join a 6-month transformation initiative focused on simplifying an AWS network environment, improving security, maintainability and scalability. The project involves designing a streamlined architecture with a reduced number of subnets and controlled connectivity, followed by a phased migration of services.  

What you will be doing: 

• Implement and maintain the target infrastructure through Terraform and automation tooling, translating the target architecture into reusable, version-controlled IaC in close collaboration with the Solution Architect and Network Engineer 

• Maintain and adapt CI/CD pipelines required for infrastructure and application deployment, including the setup and support of a parallel test environment with Concourse pipelines alongside the existing Jenkins setup 

• Coordinate deployment and migration activities with internal teams and third parties, helping resolve technical dependencies and ensuring service level objectives are maintained throughout the transition 

• Monitor and validate migrated services, including API connectivity checks with tools such as Postman 

• Contribute to continuous improvement of deployment processes, tooling and operational practices used across the cloud environment 

You are a good match if you have: 

• 5+ years of experience as an AWS DevOps Engineer 

• Strong hands-on AWS experience in deploying and monitoring production containerised services 

• Strong experience with Terraform-based infrastructure as code (IaC), including supporting migration from selected CloudFormation templates to Terraform where required  

• Working knowledge of AWS networking: VPCs, subnets, routing and security groups 

• Experience with serverless and container deployments (Lambda, Docker, ECS) 

• Experience using scripts to automate the configuration of services and tools via their APIs or SDKs with a background using Python and other tools (e.g. PowerShell, Bash, Shell) 

• Experience developing in a source-controlled workspace (GitHub/Bitbucket) 

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins and Concourse 

• Experience in deploying and managing deployments of relational databases such as MS SQL, MySQL and Postgres 

• Understanding of the software engineering lifecycle, including design, architecture, test automation, deployment automation, monitoring and alerting 

• Linux experience, especially Amazon Linux 

• Strong English communication skills 

About you: 

• Practical and hands-on in solving infrastructure and automation challenges 

• Comfortable working across changing migration environments and delivery constraints 

• Proactive in improving tooling, automation and deployment practices 

• Focused on delivering reliable outcomes in complex cloud environments