Senior AWS DevOps Consultant

Senior DevOps Consultant (Remote)
Contract | 1 week (With Option to Extend) | £400-500/day We\’re working with a lean, product-focused startup that\’s currently transitioning into the next phase of growth. The team is now seeking an experienced Senior or Principal DevOps Consultant to help design and implement a robust, scalable infrastructure foundation.
What we\’re looking for

What\’s needed is a strategic, hands-on DevOps expert who has experience working within a startup environment and is confident in building reusable patterns that will support the companies future services. You\’ll collaborate closely with a technical founder and the CEO to architect smart, scalable systems that work for a lean team-think GitOps, Helm, Terragrunt, EKS, and modern CI/CD best practices.
This is not a legacy maintenance role-it\’s about building things right from day one and enabling rapid deployment, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
Tech-Stack
AWS & EKS
Terraform & Terragrunt
GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
Helm
GitOps workflows
&##127919; Ideal Profile
Proven experience bootstrapping infrastructure for early-stage products.
Deeply hands-on, with the ability to scope, build, and deliver independently.
Comfortable refactoring and modularising existing setups to create clean, replicable patterns.
Pragmatic, with a startup mindset: low overhead, high impact.
Able to clearly communicate trade-offs and decisions.
Experience working with a start-up or small-ish company
&##128161; Why Join This Project
Shape DevOps practices from the ground up.
High trust and autonomy-direct access to decision-makers.
Strategic input valued, not just implementation.
Potential for long-term collaboration.
Remote-friendly (core team based in London).
&##128197; Engagement & Process
Start: ASAP
Interview: Informal, 30-minute technical conversation to explore your thinking and scope potential involvement
This is a great opportunity to help build the DevOps backbone of an ambitious product-if you\’re the kind of person who enjoys clean setups, modern tooling, and working closely with founders, we\’d love to hear from you.