DevOps Engineer - Terraform

Lorien; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the UK is seeking a DevOps Engineer for a hybrid working model based in London or Edinburgh. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimising AWS infrastructure, mentoring teams on DevOps best practices, and ensuring automation and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD pipeline management. This position offers a chance to work with reputable clients in the banking sector and contribute to cloud-native applications.

Benefits

Hybrid working model

Competitive salary

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS (EKS, Fargate, EC2, S3) and Infrastructure as Code.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and ArgoCD.
• Strong understanding of containerized workloads and observability solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize secure AWS infrastructure.
• Mentor engineering teams and drive automation across functions.
• Implement observability solutions using tools like Grafana and Splunk.

Skills

Architecting AWS infrastructure

CI/CD pipeline development

Container orchestration with Kubernetes

AWS networking best practices

Incident response and monitoring

Tools

AWS

Terraform

GitLab

Docker

Job description

Hybrid Working - Edinburgh OR London - 2 days a week on site.

Lorien's leading banking client is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join them.

Take a hands-on lead role in designing, implementing, and optimising secure, scalable AWS infrastructure to support cloud-native applications. Champion DevOps best practices, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate across functions to drive automation, reliability, and operational excellence.

This role is based in Edinburgh OR London.

This role will be Via Umbrella.

Working in a Hybrid Model of 2 days a week on site.

Key Experience

• Architect and manage AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Lead the hands-on development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and ArgoCD.
• Design and operate containerised workloads with EKS, Fargate, and Kubernetes.
• Implement observability solutions using OpenTelemetry (OTel), Grafana, and Splunk.
• Optimise infrastructure with Karpenter for autoscaling and cost efficiency.
• Ensure robust AWS networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Route 53) and enforce security best practices.
• Drive incident response, monitoring, and performance tuning.

Key Technologies

• AWS (EKS, Fargate, EC2, S3)
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• GitLab
• ArgoCD
• Docker
• OTel
• Grafana
• Splunk
• Python

Desirable

Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Apigee Hybrid, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.

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Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.