Senior DevOps Engineer – AWS/Terraform/Kubernetes

Sanderson Recruitment Plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 157,000; Part time

Job summary

Sanderson Recruitment Plc is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a Defence sector project in Central London. The role focuses on designing, building and operating secure, cloud-native platforms on AWS.

3 days per week on-site with a directive to drive DevOps best practices, automation and platform resilience across delivery teams. The position requires strong AWS expertise, Terraform IaC experience, and proficiency with modern CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration and scripting.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on DevOps or Platform Engineering experience in complex environments.
• Strong AWS expertise across core services, networking, security and platform design.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• CI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or similar.
• Containerisation with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Scripting in Python or Bash for automation.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and observability.
• Excellent communication with stakeholders.
• Experience operating in secure or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and enhance Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Build, optimise and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable delivery.
• Champion DevOps culture, automation and engineering best practice across delivery teams.
• Improve platform resilience, observability, security and operational performance.
• Work closely with software engineers, architects and senior stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities.
• Support containerised workloads and cloud-native deployments.
• Lead technical discussions, provide guidance to engineers and contribute to strategic decisions around platform engineering.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Docker

Python/Bash

Observability

Stakeholder comms

Secure environments

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Terraform (Tools)

Job description

Sanderson Recruitment Plc is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a Defence sector project in Central London. The role focuses on designing, building and operating secure, cloud-native platforms on AWS.

3 days per week on-site with a directive to drive DevOps best practices, automation and platform resilience across delivery teams. The position requires strong AWS expertise, Terraform IaC experience, and proficiency with modern CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration and scripting.