AWS DevOps Engineer

Title: AWS DevOps Engineer
Start date: ASAP
Location, Knutsford, Cheshire (hybrid)
Salary: Up to £367 per day (inside IR35)
Contract: Until the end of Dec 2025
Key Responsibilities:

• Migrate existing applications from Cloudera to Kubernetes-based platforms, with an upgrade to RHEL 8
• Support production deployments and releases following strict runbook and change management practices
• Provide L2/L3 application support within AWS environments, including incident, problem, and change management
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation jobs, and DevOps toolchains
• Develop and support Cloud platforms, ensuring availability, performance, and integration with development and analytics pipelines
• Work across multi-tier infrastructure involving Linux, Windows, RDBMS, JBOSS, SpringBoot, and Microservice Architectures
• Participate in an on-call support rota and proactively manage platform issues and improvements
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage stakeholder communications effectively

Essential Skills:

• Strong experience in AWS production support (L2/L3)
• CI/CD pipeline management using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Nexus, Sonarqube, TeamCity
• Automation scripting skills with Shell, Python, Chef, or Perl
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
• Proven experience deploying/configuring JBOSS, SpringBoot applications
• Experience in incident response, release management, and change control in live environments
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Desirable Skills:

• Familiarity with microservices and API integrations
• Knowledge of Active Directory (AD) for authentication and integration
• Experience with monitoring/logging tools such as AppDynamics, ELK, Kibana, and Splunk
• Understanding of security gates and code quality tools (e.g., SonarQube)
• Experience supporting test environments and resolving infrastructure/application issues
• Background in working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and complex DevOps delivery chains