AWS DevOps Engineer — Cloud, IaC & CI/CD Specialist

Opus Recruitment Solutions; Greater London; On-site; GBP 92,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Opus Recruitment Solutions is seeking a contract AWS DevOps engineer to support a major UK Government Agency on a large-scale cloud transformation. The role requires hands-on design, implementation, and maintenance of secure AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC with Terraform, partnering with architects, developers, security specialists, and product teams.

London-based HQ visits weekly; you will help drive DevOps best practices, ensure scalability, reliability, and security of critical

Qualifications

• Contract AWS DevOps engineer with experience in government cloud projects.
• Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Work within a secure AWS environment, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines for reliable software delivery.
• Automate deployment, monitoring, and operations.
• Collaborate with teams to embed DevOps practices.
• Implement cloud security controls and ensure government-standard compliance.

Skills

AWS

DevOps engineering

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud security

Infrastructure as Code

Security standards

Tools

EC2

VPC

IAM

Route 53

RDS

S3

CloudWatch

Lambda

ECS

EKS

Job description

Opus Recruitment Solutions is seeking a contract AWS DevOps engineer to support a major UK Government Agency on a large-scale cloud transformation. The role requires hands-on design, implementation, and maintenance of secure AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC with Terraform, partnering with architects, developers, security specialists, and product teams.

London-based HQ visits weekly; you will help drive DevOps best practices, ensure scalability, reliability, and security of critical