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