Senior DevOps Engineer — AWS Infra Lead (Manchester)

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

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.