DevOps Engineer AWS - FinTech

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare for you and family

Cycle to Work scheme

Pension 9% (company 5%, employee 4%)

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Client Server is seeking a DevOps Engineer (AWS) in London with hybrid work. You will design, automate and scale AWS infrastructure, manage containers on ECS, and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, secure software delivery.

The role blends hands-on cloud engineering with governance, security and cost optimisation. You’ll work three days in the London office and two days remote, collaborating with engineers and stakeholders in FinTech/market data.

Qualifications

• 2.1+ from a top-tier university (e.g. Russell Group/Oxbridge).
• Experience in FinTech or financial services environment.
• Strong AWS cloud infrastructure experience.
• Experience managing ECS-based containerised environments.
• Hands-on with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Good understanding of cloud networking, VPCs, load balancing and security groups.
• Experience with IAM, access control and cloud security principles.
• Experience scripting/automation using Python or similar languages.

Responsibilities

• Design, automate and scale AWS environments.
• Own cloud infrastructure across environments using IaC.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployments.
• Enhance observability, monitoring and security practices.
• Support platform reliability, performance and developer experience.

Skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Top-tier university degree (2.1+)

Tools

AWS

ECS

Terraform

CI/CD

Python

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 / Markt 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