AWS DevOps Consultant

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Lead the design automation security reliability and operational excellence of a production AWS platform. Youll work closely with software engineering teams to enable secure reliable software delivery while maintaining highly available cloud environments.

Focus: Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (40%) DevOps & CI/CD (30%) Automation & Software Engineering (30%)

• Design implement and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure with strong resilience and disaster recovery.
  
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
  
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
  
• Apply least-privilege and Zero Trust principles; manage encryption KMS Secrets Manager and remediate security findings.
  
• Support production environments participate in on-call drive root-cause analysis and improve platform reliability.
  
• Mentor engineers review infrastructure and application code and lead modernisation initiatives.
  

Preferred: 10 years in Cloud Engineering DevOps Platform Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering with strong production AWS experience at scale (enterprise startup or scale-up).

Alternative path considered: 6 years with significant production ownership deep AWS operational experience strong automation capability and rapid technical progression (startup/scale-up experience a plus).

Core AWS skills: ECS Lambda VPC Route53 CloudFront IAM KMS Secrets Manager RDS DynamoDB S3 CloudFormation AWS CDK Organizations cross-account architectures and cloud security governance.

Also required:

• Infrastructure as Code and automation
  
• Security fundamentals (encryption IAM least privilege Zero Trust Security by Design)
  
• Databases: PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
  
• Comfortable reading understanding and modifying application code; developing automation tooling and scripts
  

Nice to have: EKS Kubernetes Helm ArgoCD CloudWatch EventBridge Transit Gateway Direct Connect SonarQube Snyk Blue/Green deployments and experience with AI-assisted engineering tools (GitHub Copilot Cursor Claude).

• Startup or scale-up experience
  
• Ownership of production AWS platforms
  
• Experience building cloud platforms from the ground up
  
• Cloud transformation or modernisation track record
  
• Strong automation background
  

Relevant tertiary qualification is advantageous but not essential. Equivalent practical experience will be considered.