AWS DevOps & Environment Lead | Secure, Automated Infra

Synechron; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron seeks an experienced DevOps & Environment Manager to lead AWS environments across DEV, QA, UAT, pre-prod and production. You will own environment strategy, patching, and IaC pipelines with Terraform/CloudFormation, guiding teams toward predictable delivery.

The role combines hands-on engineering with governance and people leadership to reduce risk and automate operations for mission-critical platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience managing enterprise-scale AWS environments.
• Proven ownership of AMI lifecycle management, environment refreshes and OS patching.
• Strong Windows Server and RHEL administration experience.
• Experience managing or coordinating database patching for SQL Server, PostgreSQL and/or Sybase.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
• Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Amazon EKS.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Geneos, ELK or OpenSearch.
• Scripting experience using Python, Bash/Shell and PowerShell.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability remediation, compliance controls, audit evidence and operational risk management.
• Ability to improve resilience, standardization, automation and operational readiness.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, communication and mentoring skills.
• Ability to move teams from reactive firefighting to planned and predictable delivery.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern AWS environment standards, provisioning, lifecycle management, refresh and decommissioning.
• Own AMI refresh cycles and lead Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) patching.
• Coordinate database patching across SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Sybase environments.
• Maintain forward-looking patch calendars aligned with vendor releases, vulnerabilities and business risk.
• Ensure patching and major environment changes are tested, approved, communicated and fully evidenced.
• Build and enhance Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Standardize provisioning through reusable modules and reduce configuration drift and operational toil.
• Integrate smoke tests, health checks and post-deployment validation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging and operational readiness using actionable, SRE-aligned practices.
• Identify and remediate security, compliance, configuration and platform risks.
• Lead root-cause analysis and implement preventative automation to improve resilience and recovery readiness.
• Manage, mentor and guide DevOps and environment engineering teams.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Infrastructure and Operations teams on releases, changes and risk reduction.

Skills

AWS

AMI lifecycle

Windows Server

RHEL

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

PowerShell

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Synechron seeks an experienced DevOps & Environment Manager to lead AWS environments across DEV, QA, UAT, pre-prod and production. You will own environment strategy, patching, and IaC pipelines with Terraform/CloudFormation, guiding teams toward predictable delivery.

The role combines hands-on engineering with governance and people leadership to reduce risk and automate operations for mission-critical platforms.