Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS Platform & Security

Women in Data®; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption…

Flexible benefits scheme

HealthHero Employee Assistance

Job summary

Boots Online Doctor seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to take technical ownership of a complex AWS platform, driving secure, scalable infrastructure and reliable CI/CD practices. You will mentor engineers, lead incident response and champion IaC governance across Terraform and CloudFormation.

Based in Islington with hybrid pattern, you’ll advance monitoring, security, and cost efficiency while collaborating with the technology team to shape platform direction and respond to incidents swiftly.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience in a senior DevOps, cloud engineering or platform engineering role within a production AWS environment.
• Deep AWS cloud architecture experience, with confidence designing highly available, fault-tolerant and scalable platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with core AWS services such as EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS Fargate, Lambda, RDS Aurora MySQL, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Redshift and VPC.
• Expert-level CI/CD experience using Jenkins and GitHub Actions at enterprise scale.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and CloudFormation across multiple environments.
• Advanced scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking and security, including IAM, least privilege, VPC design, subnet architecture, routing and security groups.
• Experience designing or improving monitoring and observability using CloudWatch and related tooling.
• Practical experience leading incident response, root cause analysis and service reliability improvements in a high-availability environment.
• Strong communication skills, with the confidence to explain technical recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to support with the teams on-call rota, in which you will remain contactable, respond to incidents within agreed service timescales and receive an on-call allowance for each period on duty.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of complex AWS infrastructure across the Boots Online Doctor platform, including Elastic Beanstalk, ECS Fargate, Lambda, EC2, RDS Aurora MySQL, DynamoDB, Redshift and CloudFront.
• Lead the design and improvement of scalable, resilient and secure cloud architectures aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Own and improve Infrastructure as Code standards and governance across Terraform and CloudFormation, including consistency, module design, state management and drift detection.
• Architect, maintain and continually improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, helping engineering teams release reliably and efficiently.
• Build automation and tooling that reduces manual operational work, improves deployment quality and removes recurring toil.
• Lead cloud security and compliance improvements across IAM, VPC configuration, security groups, routing and AWS Shield Advanced.
• Drive remediation from AWS Well-Architected reviews and security improvement programmes, with a strong focus on protecting patient and customer data.
• Design and improve monitoring, alerting, incident response and runbooks using Amazon CloudWatch and complementary tooling.
• Lead investigation and resolution of complex production incidents, including root cause analysis and preventative actions to reduce MTTD and MTTR.
• Provide technical mentorship, code reviews and day-to-day guidance to DevOps Engineers, supporting onboarding and capability growth across the team.

Skills

AWS architecture

Cloud security

CI/CD design

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring & observability

Incident management

Leadership through expertise

Communication

On-callrotation

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

AWS Shield Advanced

Job description

Boots Online Doctor seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to take technical ownership of a complex AWS platform, driving secure, scalable infrastructure and reliable CI/CD practices. You will mentor engineers, lead incident response and champion IaC governance across Terraform and CloudFormation.

Based in Islington with hybrid pattern, you’ll advance monitoring, security, and cost efficiency while collaborating with the technology team to shape platform direction and respond to incidents swiftly.