AWS Devops Engineer (6 month contract, outside IR35)

Updraft; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A cutting-edge fintech company in London is looking for a skilled DevOps professional to refine their infrastructure and enhance security. The ideal candidate should have over 5 years of DevOps experience, strong AWS knowledge, and a good understanding of infrastructure as code principles. You'll work on optimizing cloud costs and implementing application observability solutions, while collaborating onsite three days a week.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture principles.
• Deep understanding of AWS services and architecture.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong knowledge of AWS security best practices.
• Experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Datadog).
• Familiarity with serverless architecture (AWS Lambda).
• Linux admin skills and basic shell scripting.
• Ability to work 3 days a week onsite in London.

Responsibilities

• Refine infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Introduce a culture of infrastructure as code.
• Enhance existing security stance as necessary.
• Work with the team on application-level observability solutions.
• Optimize infrastructure to reduce AWS costs.
• Ensure smooth operation of EC2 instances.

Skills

DevOps experience

Cloud-native architecture

AWS services knowledge

Infrastructure as code

Security best practices

Monitoring and logging tools

Serverless architecture

Linux administration

Shell scripting

Tools

AWS Lambda

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python

Datadog

Job description

Updraft. Helping you make changes that pay off.

Updraft is an award winning, FCA-authorised, high-growth fintech based in London. Our vision is to revolutionise the way people spend and think about money, by automating the day to day decisions involved in managing money and mainstream borrowings like credit cards, overdrafts and other loans.

• A 360 degree spending view across all your financial accounts (using Open banking)
• A free credit report with tips and guidance to help improve your credit score
• Native AI led personalised financial planning to help users manage money, pay off their debts and improve their credit scores.
• Intelligent lending products to help reduce cost of credit

We have built scale and are getting well recognised in the UK fintech ecosystem.

• 800k+ users of the mobile app that has helped users swap c £500 m of costly credit-card debt for smarter credit, putting hundreds of thousands on a path to better financial health
• The product is highly rated by our customers. We are rated 4.8 on Trustpilot, 4.8 on the Play Store, and 4.4 on the iOS Store.
• We are selected for Technation Future Fifty 2025 – a program that recognizes and supports successful and innovative scaleups to IPOs - 30% of UK unicorns have come out of this program.
• Updraft once again featured on the Sifted 100 UK startups - among only 25 companies to have made the list over both years 2024 and 2025.

Responsibilities

• Refine our infrastructure as code (Terraform) and associated CI/CD pipelines. Support developers in making changes going forward.
• Play a key role in introducing a culture of infrastructure as code and enforce through appropriate tooling.
• Critically review and where necessary enhancing our existing security stance.
• Work with the development team to introduce application-level observability solutions (e.g. CloudWatch, Datadog)
• Optimise infrastructure to reduce our AWS costs
• Ensure smooth running of handful of EC2 instances

Key Technologies:AWS (Lambda/Serverless), zappa, RDS, EC2, S3, Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, zappa.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture principles
• Deep understanding of AWS services and architecture
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, pulumi)
• Strong knowledge of security best practices in AWS cloud environments
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog)
• Experience with serverless architecture and services (e.g., AWS Lambda)
• Linux admin and basic shell scripting
• Ability to work 3 days a week onsite in our London office