Senior DevOps Engineer

Maxwell Bond; Manchester; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

Maxwell Bond have partnered with a fast-growing technology business in Manchester, seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to own the AWS infrastructure and drive reliability, security and cost efficiency as the platform scales.

You will manage ECS/Fargate, EC2, VPC, and CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and GitHub Actions, collaborating with senior leaders to shape architecture and incident response.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE or Cloud Infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and IaC/CI/CD with Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Bitbucket Pipelines or GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of database performance, caching, and incident response; troubleshoot across infra, app, and data layers.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environments, managing ECS/Fargate, EC2, VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM and AWS WAF.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex infrastructure and production issues, troubleshooting across containers, networking, databases, and more, identifying root causes and improving platform reliability.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting and incident response processes, introducing proactive observability, operational runbooks and stronger disaster recovery procedures.
• Drive infrastructure automation through Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD, reducing manual changes and improving deployment consistency, rollback processes and operational maturity.

Skills

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Production workloads

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Bitbucket Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer

Salary: Up to £75,000

Location: Manchester City Centre

Maxwell Bond have partnered with a fast-growing technology business who are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join their Manchester based team.

This is a pivotal role working closely with senior technical leaders and the wider engineering team. You'll take ownership of the AWS infrastructure supporting a growing technology platform, ensuring systems are secure, scalable, reliable and cost-efficient as the business continues to grow.

What you'll do as Senior DevOps Engineer:

• Own and evolve the AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environments, managing ECS/Fargate, EC2, VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM and AWS WAF.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex infrastructure and production issues, troubleshooting across containers, networking, databases, and more, identifying root causes and improving platform reliability.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting and incident response processes, introducing proactive observability, operational runbooks and stronger disaster recovery procedures.
• Drive infrastructure automation through Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD, reducing manual changes and improving deployment consistency, rollback processes and operational maturity.

What's in it for you:

• Salary up to £75,000.
• Opportunity to take full ownership of the AWS infrastructure and make key architectural decisions across a growing technology platform.
• A hands-on senior role where you can influence reliability, security, scalability and cost efficiency across a complex production environment.
• The chance to join a growing business investing heavily in its technology and infrastructure.

What They're Looking For:

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE or Cloud Infrastructure, with strong hands‑on experience running production AWS workloads under significant load.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD, using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Bitbucket Pipelines or GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of database performance, caching, asynchronous workloads and production incident response, with the ability to troubleshoot across infrastructure, application and data layers.