Senior DevOps Engineer

Candour; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Enhanced parental benefits

Job summary

Candour is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to support and enhance cloud infrastructure, while contributing to scalable, high-performing solutions. You will mentor colleagues, help plan complex work, and drive improvements in deployment, monitoring, and IaC practices.

The role emphasizes Terraform, Bash scripting, AWS services, and a strong focus on cost visibility, automation, and architecture evolution in a fully remote UK setting.

Qualifications

• Experience managing live production environments, including incidents and new system rollouts.
• Proficient with Terraform in large-scale environments and creating reusable modules.
• Shell scripting skills (Bash) and Linux experience.
• Awareness of cloud costs and cost visibility.
• Experience with AWS services and microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

• Mentor teammates, share knowledge, and strengthen DevOps practices.
• Contribute to planning complex technical work and breaking down deliverables.
• Improve deployment processes, rollback strategies, monitoring, and migration approaches.
• Collaborate on architecture discussions and engineering best practices.

Skills

Terraform

Mentoring

Incidents handling

Cloud cost awareness

Microservices

Tools

Packer

Docker

Git

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a growing Agile engineering team. This role will focus on supporting and maintaining existing cloud infrastructure, whilst also contributing to the design and development of modern, scalable, and high-performing infrastructure solutions.

Team players are essential for us, as this position will include supporting the wider DevOps team by mentoring colleagues, sharing knowledge, and helping to build confidence across technical areas. You will also contribute to planning complex technical work, breaking down deliverables into manageable tasks, and supporting the team in managing uncertainty. In addition, we are looking for someone to play a key role in improving DevOps practices, bringing experience in infrastructure testing, Terraform best practices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and introducing alternative technologies where appropriate.

You will work across a range of AWS technologies, supporting infrastructure hosted on services including ASGs, ECS, RDS Aurora MySQL, MSK, ElastiCache, S3, and Redshift Spectrum. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team during a period of technical growth, with platform upgrades and ongoing discussions around architecture, technology, and future direction. The ideal candidate will drive improvements to deployment processes, rollback strategies, monitoring, and migration approaches, while contributing to coding standards, peer reviews, and the adoption of new ideas and engineering best practices.

The Essentials

• Experience managing live production environments, including incidents, production changes, and new system rollouts
• Highly proficient with Terraform, particularly within large-scale environments
• Experience designing and creating reusable Terraform modules
• Strong familiarity with Bash/Shell scripting
• Awareness of cloud costs and cost visibility
• Experience deploying and maintaining PHP systems, including PHP 7 and PHP 8
• Strong experience working with Linux systems, particularly Ubuntu
• Familiarity with ETL processes and tools
• Experience working with relational databases including SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
• Experience deploying and maintaining MPP data warehouses such as Snowflake or similar
• Understanding of Microservices architecture
• High proficiency with Git
• Experience using HashiCorp Packer for AMI builds
• 5+ years of commercial experience in a DevOps or infrastructure-focused role
• Experience working at scale
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS, ideally with 5+ years\' experience using:

• ASG
• ALB
• ECS
• CloudFront
• Lambda
• ElastiCache
• RDS (Aurora)
• Control Tower

The Desirables

• Previous experience with affiliate tracking, data integrations, or similar environments
• Experience writing automated tests and infrastructure tests
• Experience designing and supporting high-traffic applications
• Experience using, configuring, and deploying Docker containers
• Experience hosting APIs including REST and GraphQL
• Experience working with various database technologies, including NoSQL
• Mentoring, team leadership, or management experience
• Experience participating in on-call or out-of-hours support
• Experience handling and manipulating large datasets
• Experience hosting Single Page Applications and static websites, such as Nuxt.js or Next.js
• Experience migrating legacy infrastructure into Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Experience with data engineering, particularly leveraging Machine Learning to gain insights
• Experience with Laravel and PHP version upgrades
• Experience deploying and maintaining queuing and caching technologies including:

What are the benefits?

• Fully remote working
• Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits