Remote AWS DevOps Engineer: Cloud Automation & CI/CD

scrumconnect ltd; Tees Valley; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect is seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to support large-scale digital services in a complex cloud environment. You will build, optimise, and manage AWS infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and cloud operations across environments.

You will collaborate with software developers, architects, testers, and delivery teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions, with emphasis on modern architectures including React, microservices, serverless, and Kafka integrations.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing, deploying, and supporting AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Experience managing multiple environments within AWS.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
• Experience supporting modern architectures: React front-end, microservices, Lambda, Kafka.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Solid understanding of AWS networking (Transit Gateway, PrivateLink).
• Experience IAM, MFA, and security controls administration.
• Knowledge of Kong Enterprise API management.
• Experience cloud governance and FinOps practices, including tagging standards.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving, work in Agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Set up, configure, and manage multiple AWS environments across dev/test/staging/prod.
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using Git-based tooling.
• Manage AWS infrastructure supporting React front-end, microservices, Lambdas, and Kafka integrations.
• Support ETL and RPA integrations where applicable.
• Implement secure networking patterns (Transit Gateway, PrivateLink).
• Deploy and manage Kong Enterprise API Gateway.
• Administer MFA and IAM roles/permissions for dev teams.
• Ensure resources are tagged and governed per FinOps standards.
• Monitor performance, availability, and reliability across environments.
• Collaborate to improve automation, deployment efficiency, and ops excellence.
• Troubleshoot infra and deployment issues across cloud environments.
• Contribute to cloud security best practices and continuous improvement.
• Support WCAG 2.2 AAA accessibility alignment for front-end services.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kong Enterprise

IAM & security

AWS networking

AWS Lambda

Kafka

Serverless

Monitoring

FinOps

Agile

Git workflows

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kong Enterprise

CloudWatch

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Scrumconnect is seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to support large-scale digital services in a complex cloud environment. You will build, optimise, and manage AWS infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and cloud operations across environments.

You will collaborate with software developers, architects, testers, and delivery teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions, with emphasis on modern architectures including React, microservices, serverless, and Kafka integrations.