DevOps Engineer

Plan A Digital; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 76,500 - 93,500; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the UK is seeking a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer for a fully remote position. This role involves designing and maintaining AWS environments, promoting a DevOps culture, and leading architectural improvements. The ideal candidate will have at least five years of experience in Cloud DevOps, a solid understanding of AWS, and expertise in Terraform. This position offers the chance to influence cloud standards and work in a collaborative environment that values innovation and quality.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of experience in Cloud DevOps or similar roles.
• Strong understanding of AWS services and architecture.
• Experience with Terraform and CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain AWS environments to meet security standards.
• Promote DevOps culture and automation within teams.
• Lead technical assessments and recommend architecture improvements.

Skills

Cloud DevOps

Terraform

AWS

Git

SQL

Linux

Problem solving

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Degree in computer science, engineering or a similar technical field

Tools

CloudFormation

MySQL

Postgres

Job description

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer – Fully Remote (UK only) – Up to £85k

High impact role. Modern AWS environment. Real engineering influence.

Our global tech client builds advanced cloud and data platforms for large scale, distributed environments. This group is investing heavily in AWS, automation and data driven solutions, and they are hiring a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer who wants ownership, autonomy and the chance to shape future cloud standards.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges and wants to work with a wide range of cloud, container and data technologies.

Your core responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain AWS environments and ensure they meet industry security standards.
• Promote DevOps culture, automation thinking and strong engineering practice across the team.
• Lead technical assessments, risk reviews and architectural improvements for data and cloud workloads.
• Create reusable templates and patterns using Terraform and CloudFormation to support consistent cloud deployments.
• Manage identity and access, support cloud integrations, analyse performance and recommend improvements to keep systems robust and resilient.

Skills and experience required

• Degree in computer science, engineering or a similar technical field.
• Five or more years experience in Cloud DevOps, Cloud Architecture or Platform Engineering.
• Strong understanding of AWS across compute, networking, identity and databases.
• Solid experience with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Confident with SQL, MySQL, Postgres and S3 based storage.
• Comfortable with Linux and shell scripting.
• Experience with Git, GitHub and CI or CD pipelines.
• Strong analytical and problem solving mindset with the ability to collaborate in a fast paced environment.
• Strong grasp of modern DevOps, cloud tooling and configuration management.

Nice to have

• AWS certifications.
• Working knowledge of SOC 2, GDPR or related compliance requirements.
• Networking certifications such as CCNA or CCNP.
• Experience with Kafka, MQTT or other streaming technologies.
• Hands on experience with serverless, ECS or EKS.
• Agile or Scrum exposure.

Why this role stands out

• Work with a mature AWS ecosystem that includes EKS, Lambdas, MWAA, Confluent and Timescale.
• Help drive the cloud vision and influence standards, guardrails and best practice.
• Join a collaborative team of software, systems and network engineers.
• Build secure, scalable data and analytics platforms used across the organisation.
• Make an impact in an environment that values engineering quality, automation and innovation.

Why candidates choose this role

• You gain ownership over cloud direction and standards.
• You join a team that encourages learning, experimentation and the use of new technologies.
• You work in an environment that values both independence and collaboration.
• You build platforms that directly support real time analytics and high value data solutions.

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full-time

Job function / Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting, Telecommunications, and IT System Custom Software Development