DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer AWS Specialist II - DevOps Engineering - UST

OpenTalent; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent in London is seeking an experienced DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable cloud-native infrastructure in AWS, with a focus on IaC, CI/CD, and observability.

You will automate provisioning with Terraform, strengthen IAM and security, and collaborate with engineering to improve reliability and performance across enterprise-grade platforms.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and security best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to design and operate scalable cloud platforms.
• Experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and release automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and IaC.
• Ensure secure cloud operations with strong IAM and access controls.
• Build and maintain scalable, resilient platforms and services.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines for rapid software delivery.
• Automate environment provisioning and release processes.
• Improve observability with logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring.
• Support incident management and platform reliability initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering to embed DevOps and cloud-native practices.

Skills

DevOps practices

Cloud architecture

Agile delivery

Security mindset

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

Job description

DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: London, UK (Hybrid) Employment Type: Fixed-Term Employment / Contract (Inside IR35)

We are seeking an experienced DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer to support the delivery of secure, scalable, and highly reliable cloud-native solutions. Working within a modern AWS environment, you will play a key role in automating infrastructure, strengthening platform security, enhancing observability, and enabling efficient software delivery through CI/CD best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Ensure secure cloud operations through robust IAM, access control, and security best practices.
• Build and maintain scalable, resilient, and highly available platforms and services.
• Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable software delivery.
• Implement and manage environment provisioning, configuration, and release automation.
• Drive observability across applications and platforms through logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring solutions.
• Support incident management, performance optimisation, and platform reliability initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to embed DevOps and cloud-native best practices.
• Required Skills & Experience
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.
• Expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Deep understanding of AWS IAM, cloud security, and governance.
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of observability frameworks and tools, including OpenTelemetry.
• Experience implementing logging, monitoring, metrics, and distributed tracing solutions.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Security-focused mindset with experience in secure platform engineering.

Desired Experience:

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Knowledge of containerised and cloud-native platforms.
• Exposure to DevSecOps practices and automation tooling.
• Experience supporting production workloads in enterprise-scale environments.

AWS, Terraform, AWS IAM, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry, Security Engineering