AWS Devops Engineer - Hybrid

Opus Recruitment Solutions; Greater London; Presencial; GBP 92.000 - 101.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

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

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

AWS

DevOps engineering

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud security

Infrastructure as Code

Security standards

Herramientas

EC2

VPC

IAM

Route 53

RDS

S3

CloudWatch

Lambda

ECS

EKS

Descripción del empleo

We're on the lookout for contract AWS DevOps engineers for our consultancy partner who are supporting a major UK Government Agency on a large-scale cloud transformation programme to join a high-performing delivery team. The role is paying £500-£550 inside IR35, and will involve weekly visits to their London HQ.

You will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and platform services within a secure AWS environment. Working alongside architects, developers, security specialists, and product teams, you will help drive DevOps best practices and ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of critical services.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and related tooling.
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery.
• Automate deployment, monitoring, and operational processes.
• Collaborate with development and platform teams to embed DevOps principles and best practices.
• Implement cloud security controls and ensure compliance with government standards.

Required Skills & Experience

Essential

• Strong commercial experience as a DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or Platform Engineer.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services including:

• EC2
• VPC
• IAM
• Route 53
• RDS
• S3
• CloudWatch
• Lambda
• ECS and/or EKS