At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and maintain a modern AWS platform while driving DevOps best practices.
- Company: Join a global financial services organisation leading in cloud transformation.
- Benefits: Hybrid working, exposure to cutting-edge tech, and fast-moving interview process.
- Other info: Immediate project demand with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make an impact on large-scale cloud-native solutions with a high-performing team.
- Qualifications: Strong AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform experience, and excellent communication skills.
Your new company
You'll be joining a global financial services organisation currently investing heavily in cloud transformation, platform engineering and DevOps capability. With major programmes underway across cloud infrastructure and cyber remediation, this is an opportunity to join a high-performing engineering team delivering modern, cloud-native solutions at scale.
Your new role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in building and maintaining a modern AWS platform, supporting critical cloud infrastructure and driving DevOps best practice across the engineering function. You'll work closely with developers and platform teams to automate deployments, improve resilience, enhance observability and deliver secure, scalable cloud environments. This is a hands-on role focused on infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation and cloud engineering rather than software development.
What you'll need to succeed
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC and CloudWatch
- Proven experience with Kubernetes, ideally EKS
- Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
- Expertise building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab
- Python and/or Bash scripting experience
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus or Grafana
- Strong understanding of cloud security and networking principles
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Financial services experience is beneficial but not essential
What you'll get in return
- Hybrid working with 1-2 days per week onsite
- Opportunity to work on a large-scale cloud-native platform
- Exposure to AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and modern DevOps tooling
- Fast-moving interview process
- Immediate project demand with strong programme backing
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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