Senior AWS DevOps Engineer — Cloud Platform & CI/CD Lead

Anson McCade Pty; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Anson McCade Pty in Manchester is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and build secure, scalable AWS infrastructure from scratch, shaping CI/CD pipelines, automation, and platform engineering from day one. You will create IaC with Terraform, run Kubernetes-based platforms, implement monitoring and security best practices, and mentor junior engineers in a fast-growing team.

This remote-first role requires eligibility for UK Security Clearance and offers in-office presence twice a month,

Qualifications

• 5+ years' commercial experience in a DevOps/Platform Engineering role
• Strong hands-on experience designing and building AWS infrastructure
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes and CI/CD

Responsibilities

• Designing and building secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure from scratch
• Developing Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform
• Creating, deploying and managing Kubernetes-based platforms
• Building and improving automated CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
• Implementing monitoring, logging and observability solutions
• Driving infrastructure best practices around security, resilience, compliance and disaster recovery
• Optimising platforms for performance, availability and cost efficiency
• Troubleshooting complex infrastructure and deployment challenges
• Collaborating with software engineers and technical stakeholders
• Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to technical leadership

Skills

AWS design

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring

Security best practices

Agile/Scrum

Mentoring

Tools

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Docker

Nexus

Job description

Anson McCade Pty in Manchester is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and build secure, scalable AWS infrastructure from scratch, shaping CI/CD pipelines, automation, and platform engineering from day one. You will create IaC with Terraform, run Kubernetes-based platforms, implement monitoring and security best practices, and mentor junior engineers in a fast-growing team.

This remote-first role requires eligibility for UK Security Clearance and offers in-office presence twice a month,