Cloud DevOps Engineer

inploi; Hemel Hempstead; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Hemel Hempstead hub

Travel across hotel portfolio

Job summary

Warner Hotels is seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer to manage the AWS environment, ensuring security, reliability, and scalable infrastructure for our hotel portfolio. You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, implement IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation, monitor with CloudWatch, and optimize costs while keeping compliance and performance at the forefront.

This role offers a flexible hybrid working pattern with opportunities to collaborate across our Hemel Hempstead hub and travel between

Qualifications

• 3+ years in DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer preferred.
• Experience with production environments for high-traffic web apps.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable deployments.
• Enforce security-by-design principles, IAM, encryption, and vulnerability management.
• Audit and optimize cloud costs using AWS Cost Explorer and right-size resources.
• Collaborate across architecture and development teams; provide documentation and incident RCA insights.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps principles

Security-minded

Cross-functional collaboration

Incident response

Education

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Docker

ECS/EKS

Python

Bash

Job description

At Warner Hotels, we’re looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer to be responsible for the robust administration, security, and scalability of the Warner Hotels AWS environment. This role sits at the intersection of development and operations, building and maintaining the infrastructure pipelines, automating deployments, and ensuring that our cloud architecture remains cost-effective, performant, and secure.

The UK’s leading provider of adult short break experiences, Warner Hotels is a collection of unique properties in great locations across the UK. All short breaks at a Warner Hotel include breakfast, dinner and specified entertainment and activities, ensuring guests make the most of their time away. Situated in stunning locations nationwide including Heythrop Park in the Cotswolds, Studley Castle in Warwickshire, Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire and The Runnymede on Thames, each hotel offers its own personal character that makes every Warner Hotels stay unique.

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for proactively managing and scaling the AWS footprint, ensuring high availability for critical hotel-facing applications. You'll maintain robust monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks (e.g., CloudWatch, X-Ray) to achieve target uptime metrics. as well as managing the lifecycle of AWS resources (Fargate, Lambda, RDS, VPC) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure environment consistency.

CI/CD & Release Management

• Design and optimize end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable, and error-free code deployments. Automate routine operational tasks and manual infrastructure provisioning to improve development velocity and reduce MTTR (Mean Time to Repair).

Security & Compliance

• Enforce security-by-design principles, including identity access management (IAM) least-privilege policies, network security groups, and encryption-at-rest. Perform regular vulnerability scanning and manage automated patching cycles to maintain a secure cloud posture. Provide technical onboarding and standards guidance for partner teams.

Cost Optimization & Performance

• Continuously audit cloud usage, utilizing tools like AWS Cost Explorer and Compute Optimizer to eliminate waste and maximize ROI. Implement auto-scaling strategies and right-sizing policies to align infrastructure costs with actual business demand and transactional volume.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Act as the technical bridge between architecture and development, providing clear documentation for infrastructure standards. Participate in incident response activities, providing technical root cause analysis (RCA) for infrastructure-related outages.

You will need to have or be :

• Expert-level understanding of AWS core services (specifically Fargate, Lambda, S3, IAM, and Networking).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with scripting languages (Python or Bash) for automation.
• Understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (ECS/EKS)
• Systems Thinker: Ability to visualize and manage complex interdependencies in a cloud-native environment.
• Security-Minded: A "security-first" approach to all architectural and configuration decisions.
• Problem-Solver: Rapidly diagnoses and resolves infrastructure-related bottlenecks or outages.
• Collaborative: you will need to effectively communicate technical architectural requirements to non-technical stakeholders.

Experience / Education / Qualification

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles.
• AWS Professional or Associate level certification (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer) preferred.
• Experience working in a production environment managing high-traffic web or enterprise applications.

Why join us:

You’ll be part of a supportive team that values creativity, collaboration, and growth. We offer a flexible hybrid working approach, with opportunities to travel across our hotel portfolio and connect at our Hemel Hempstead hub. Here, your ideas will shape learning experiences that make a lasting difference for our people and our guests