Senior AWS Platform Engineer - Scalable, Secure DevOps

Kainos; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Birmingham team, shaping scalable, secure cloud-based services. You’ll collaborate across engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security to design, build, test and deploy high-quality software.

You’ll apply best practices, drive CD/CI, and mentor junior colleagues while solving complex production challenges. We value people-first culture, opportunity for growth, and active contributions to an inclusive DevOps environment

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building modern digital service platforms in production.
• Ability to design scalable, resilient, secure, cost-efficient architectures.
• Experience with AWS and infrastructure automation.
• Strong experience in CI/CD and deployment pipelines.
• Active Security Clearance is required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security to build and deploy software of the highest quality.
• Apply latest technologies aligned to industry standards and best practices to maximize user and business benefits.
• Support a people-first culture and foster an inclusive DevOps environment.
• Drive conversations and decisions to ensure services are scalable, secure, reliable and performant.
• Support Live Operation to keep services in production, available and improving over time.
• Mentor junior team members and embody Kainos values as a role model.
• Explore opportunities to specialize and influence career direction within the team.

Skills

Team collaboration

Technical communication

Scripting languages

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Ruby

Go

Groovy

Security clearance

Education

Third level degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Git

Job description

Kainos is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Birmingham team, shaping scalable, secure cloud-based services. You’ll collaborate across engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security to design, build, test and deploy high-quality software.

You’ll apply best practices, drive CD/CI, and mentor junior colleagues while solving complex production challenges. We value people-first culture, opportunity for growth, and active contributions to an inclusive DevOps environment