Devops Engineer Aws - Fintech

Client Server Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary to £80k plus bonus

3 weeks work anywhere per year

25 days holiday increasing to 30

Pension 9% with employee 4%

Healthcare for you and family

Cycle to Work

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Client Server Limited is seeking a proactive DevOps Engineer (AWS) in London with hybrid WFH options. You will build and scale cloud infrastructure that underpins trading and market-data platforms, focusing on automation, reliability and secure scalable design.

Responsibilities include owning Terraform-based IaC, managing ECS containers, and optimising CI/CD pipelines. The role blends in-office collaboration in London with remote work two days per week and a strong focus on cost, security and

Qualifications

• 2.1 or above from a top-tier university (e.g. Russel Group, Oxbridge).
• Experience in a FinTech or financial services environment is desirable.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience and container orchestration knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, automate and scale AWS-based cloud infrastructure across environments.
• Own cloud infrastructure, implement IaC with Terraform, and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Enhance observability, monitoring and logging to boost reliability and performance.
• Drive security, networking and access management best practices across platforms.
• Support governance, cost optimisation and documentation for scalable systems.

Skills

AWS cloud infrastructure

ECS

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

Cloud security principles

Networking - VPCs

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

DevOps Engineer (AWS) London / WFH to £80k

Are you a bright, ambitious DevOps Engineer with a strong academic background looking to progress your career?

You could be joining a scaling Investment Research / Market Data tech company in an impactful, hands-on DevOps Engineer role with great benefits and perks.

As a DevOps Engineer you'll help build and scale the cloud infrastructure that underpins the products and engineering teams. This is a hands-on role where you'll design, automate and optimise modern AWS environments, enabling developers to deliver software quickly, securely and reliably.

You'll take ownership of cloud infrastructure across multiple environments, using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code to build scalable, resilient platforms. Working with containerised workloads on ECS, you'll enhance CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, improve observability through monitoring and logging and implement best practices for cloud security, networking and access management.

Collaborating with software engineers, you'll help improve platform reliability, performance and developer experience while supporting database infrastructure, internal tooling and operational automation. You'll also play a key role in infrastructure governance, documentation, cost optimisation and ensuring systems are secure, maintainable and built to scale.

Location / WFH:

You'll join colleagues in the London office three days a week with flexibility to work from home the other two days.

About you:

• You have achieved a 2.1 or above from a top tier university (e.g. Russel Group, Oxbridge), backed by A's at A-level
• You have experience within a FinTech or financial services environment
• You have strong experience working with AWS cloud infrastructure
• You have experience managing ECS based containerised environments
• You have hands on experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tools
• You have experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• You have a good understanding of cloud networking, VPCs, load balancing and security groups
• You have experience with IAM, access control and cloud security principles
• You have experience with scripting or automation using Python or similar languages
• You're collaborative with great communication skills

What's in it for you:

• Salary to £80k + bonus
• X3 weeks per year work anywhere
• 25 days holiday, increasing to 30
• Pension 9% (company contributes 5%, employee contributes 4%)
• Healthcare for you and your family
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Assistance Program