AWS DevOps Engineer

Team Creation; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days paid holiday per year

Pension

Life Assurance (4x annual salary)

Private Medical Insurance

Job summary

Team Creation Limited is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our AWS/EKS-focused team in the UK. You will automate infrastructure with Terraform, manage EKS clusters, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD and ArgoCD.

You will collaborate with developers and SREs to improve reliability, observability, and cost efficiency, while applying best practices in IAM, security, and incident response.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE or related roles focused on AWS/EKS.
• Experience building production-grade CI/CD pipelines on AWS/Kubernetes.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong problem-solving and production troubleshooting skills.
• Automation-first mindset with a passion for learning and improvement.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, security and product.
• Chinese proficiency is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and rollouts in AWS/EKS.
• Manage and optimize Amazon EKS clusters for container orchestration in production.
• Implement IaC using Terraform on AWS.
• Support live production AWS/EKS environments, including on-call rotation, incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, scaling, observability, and secure workload access across AWS services.
• Collaborate on improving system reliability, observability, security, and AWS cost optimization.

Skills

Python

Bash

Go

TypeScript

Git

AWS

EKS

CloudWatch

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

IRSA

Cost Explorer

Compute Optimizer

IAM

Chinese

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

Team Creation Limited is a fast-growing software development company operating across Asia and UK. We provide services including market research, artificial intelligence solutions, cloud computing, and mobile application development for a broad range of international clients. Our focus is on delivering innovative and high-quality technology solutions while supporting the continued growth and development of our professional workforce.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team. You will focus exclusively on AWS and Amazon EKS, automating infrastructure with Terraform, orchestrating containers via EKS, building robust CI/CD with GitOps, and implementing strong monitoring/observability + AWS EKS IAM concepts to support secure, high-performance, cost-optimised systems. You will work closely with developers and SREs in an automation-first, collaborative culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and rollouts in AWS/EKS.
• Manage and optimize Amazon EKS clusters for container orchestration in production.
• Implement and evolve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform on AWS.
• Support live production AWS/EKS environments, including on-call rotation, incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, scaling, observability, and secure workload access across AWS services.
• Collaborate on improving system reliability, observability, security (DevSecOps/EKS IAM), and AWS cost optimization.

Qualifications:

• Scripting & programming in Python and Bash/Shell; Go/Typescript is a nice-to-have.
• Git workflows, branching strategies, and version control best practices.
• Proficiency with AWS (core services like EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, CloudWatch, etc.; production-grade experience required).
• Solid experience with Amazon EKS (cluster creation/management, node groups, add-ons, upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise, with Terraform strongly preferred (AWS provider/modules experience a must).
• Familiarity with Helm charts and Kustomize (for packaging, templating, versioning, and deploying Kubernetes applications/add-ons in EKS environments).
• Hands‑on building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD, plus ArgoCD (GitOps).
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, OpenTelemetry) – including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and integration with AWS services (e.g., CloudWatch, X‑Ray).
• Solid understanding of AWS EKS IAM concepts, especially for EKS, including:
• IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)
• EKS Access Entries and Access Policies (Cluster Access Management API)
• EKS Cluster IAM Role and Node IAM Role configuration/management
• Principle of least privilege, temporary credentials, avoiding over‑permissive roles, credential isolation, and integration between IAM and Kubernetes RBAC
• Experience analysing and optimising AWS costs using tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer, and EKS workload right‑sizing.

Skills:

• 3+ years of hands‑on experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), infrastructure engineering, or closely related roles (focused on AWS/EKS environments).
• Proven track record building and maintaining production‑grade CI/CD pipelines with AWS/K8S.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or equivalent practical experience (degree‑optional – we value hands‑on AWS/EKS impact most).
• Excellent problem‑solving and troubleshooting, especially under pressure in production AWS/EKS setups.
• Automation‑first mindset with a passion.
• Growth mindset – eagerness to continuously learn, adapt to evolving AWS/EKS technologies and best practices, embrace challenges as opportunities for improvement, and turn incidents/post‑mortems into actionable learning for personal and team growth.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional stakeholders, including engineering, SRE, security, and product teams.
• Maintain clear technical documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks for production systems.
• Chinese proficiency is preferred

We Offer:

• Experience a dynamic and team‑orientated work environment.
• Opportunities for personal growth and learning.
• An open, inclusive and supportive team where you will be valued, and your suggestions will be welcome.
• 26 days paid holiday per year, in addition to local public holidays.
• Risk Benefits such as pension, Life Assurance (4x annual salary), Private Medical Insurance.