Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) VoD/AVoD/Streaming ideally

Pcr Digital; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic digital recruitment agency is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) to work on scalable distributed systems for video streaming. The role is fully remote within the UK or EU, requiring expertise in AWS, Akka/Java microservices, and cloud performance optimization. Candidates should have 3-5 years of experience managing high-throughput systems. Join us in powering the next generation of global video streaming.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of senior-level AWS platform engineering experience.
• Proven experience owning production environments with up to 1M+ concurrent users.
• Nice to have: Java development experience and strong microservices knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy end-to-end AWS environments.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for Java microservices using blue/green strategies.
• Implement observability: metrics, logs, and alerting.

Skills

AWS platform engineering

Akka/Java microservices

JVM tuning

asynchronous, event-driven architectures

resilience techniques

Fluent in English (C1 level)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Job description

Overview

Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) Contract Remote (Europe/UK). Immediate Start (within 2-3 weeks). Market rate (TBC). IR35 TBC. Duration initially 3 months but ongoing.

Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in AWS platform engineering for high-throughput, low-latency systems. Hands-on expertise in Akka/Java microservices, JVM tuning, and asynchronous, event-driven architectures. If you are suitable and passionate about scaling distributed systems and optimizing cloud performance, then this could be for you. Apply today and help power the next generation of global video streaming and video advertising.

This role can be fully remote from the UK OR EU (must have right to work in EU or UK). Market rate depending on experience - IR35 TBC.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy end-to-end AWS environments (landing zones, VPCs, networking, security, automation).
• Build immutable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for Java microservices (Maven/Gradle) with blue/green, canary, and rollback strategies.
• Implement observability: metrics, logs, traces, SLOs/SLIs, alerting, and on-call runbooks.
• Engineer for scale and reliability - autoscaling, caching, multi-AZ/region DR, and performance tuning to meet 5M+ user load.
• Apply security-by-design using IAM least privilege, KMS, Secrets Manager, WAF/Shield, and CIS compliance.
• Collaborate with developers and performance engineers to tune JVM, Akka, thread pools, GC, and infra limits.
• Drive cost optimization through tagging, reporting dashboards, and resource management.

What We're Looking For

• Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in AWS platform engineering
• 3-5+ years of senior-level AWS platform engineering for high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Proven experience owning production environments with 10k-1M+ concurrent users and 99.9x SLOs
• Hands-on expertise in Akka/Java microservices, JVM tuning, and asynchronous, event-driven architectures
• Strong grasp of resilience techniques (circuit breakers, retries, chaos engineering)
• Fluent in English (C1 level)
• Nice to have - Java development experience, strong microservices knowledge, Terraform proficiency

Location & Start

Location: Remote (Europe)

Start date: Within 1-3 weeks of offer

Tech Stack

• AWS: EKS/ECS, EC2, ALB/NLB, API Gateway, Lambda, S3/CloudFront, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Aurora, MSK/Kinesis, OpenSearch, Route53, WAF/Shield, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager
• IaC & CI/CD: Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, Argo CD, Flux, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker
• Observability: CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana
• Automation: Bash, Python (plus Java build/release familiarity)

Interested?

If you're passionate about scaling distributed systems and optimizing cloud performance, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help power the next generation of global video streaming.

Everybody is welcome

Diversity and Inclusion Statement. PCR Digital

"At PCR Digital, we are committed to ensuring that diversity, equity and inclusion play a role at all stages of our recruitment - it is important to us that our own company culture and the culture of our network is as varied and supportive as possible. We love people (it's why we do what we do), so, regardless of background, we welcome you to work with us or apply to any of our jobs if you feel that they are right for you."