Senior TechOps Engineer

IntaPeople; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services organisation is seeking a Senior TechOps / DevOps Engineer to enhance their AWS infrastructure. This role involves managing complex environments with tools such as Terraform and Kubernetes, as well as architecting comprehensive monitoring solutions. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS services and pipeline management. Offering a competitive salary between £60,000 and £70,000, along with a hybrid working model, this position provides a unique opportunity to work within a recognised disruptor in the finance sector.

Benefits

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Additional day off for birthday

Free coffee

Cycle to work scheme

Cinema tickets

Discounts and cashback

Online workouts and wellness classes

24/7 GP support

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience with AWS services.
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Proficiency in Terraform and managing complex environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Architect and maintain a comprehensive monitoring stack.
• Implement traffic management strategies using AWS.
• Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters.
• Build and deploy pipelines using GitHub Actions.

Skills

AWS services (EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS, IAM)

Prometheus (PromQL)

Grafana

Terraform

Terragrunt

Kubernetes (EKS)

GitHub CI

Octopus Deploy

JavaScript

Golang

Node.js

PHP

Job description

Senior TechOps / DevOps Engineer

IntaPeople are working with a disruptive financial services organisation who have been recognised as having one of the most exciting upcoming products in Europe. We are currently looking for a Senior TechOps / DevOps Engineer who has a strong focus on AWS Infrastructure.

Due to substantial growth in the US market, you’ll join the team and work closely with multiple Cloud & Software Engineers to build and maintain their modern technology platform for their target market globally.

Responsibilities (at a glance)

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt while driving standards for management and architecture.
• Architect and maintain a comprehensive monitoring stack whilst configuring Prometheus for metrics, visualise data in Grafana, and standardise distributed tracing across services using tools such as OpenTelemetry.
• Implement and manage traffic management strategies using AWS to ensure performance standard for their global client base.
• Using Kubernetes (EKS) to manage and scale clusters.
• Build and deploy pipelines using GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy, moving them towards continuous delivery.
• Using HashiCorp for security and monitoring standards required within their industry.

Essential Requirements

• Strong professional experience with AWS services (EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS, IAM).
• Strong hands‑on experience with Prometheus (PromQL) and Grafana (understanding the difference between logging, metrics, and tracing).
• Strong proficiency with Terraform and specifically Terragrunt for managing complex environments.
• Extensive experience managing container orchestration with Kubernetes clusters.
• Proven experience building pipelines (CI / CD) using GitHub CI or Octopus Deploy.
• Ability to read and debug code in at least one of their core languages: JavaScript, Golang, Node.js or PHP.

Benefits at a glance

• A starting salary of £60,000 - £70,000 DOE.
• A starting holiday allowance of 25 days holidays + Bank Holidays.
• An additional day off for your birthday.
• Hybrid office working arrangements (3 days onsite / 2 days wfh).
• Perks platform that includes free coffee, cycle to work scheme, cinema tickets and a whole host of discounts / cashback as well as online workouts, wellness classes and 24/7 GP support.

Flexible working environment

City centre location with modern, open plan working spaces (Cardiff City centre).

For more information please call Nathan Handley on (phone number removed) or click apply now for a call back.

Please note this role is based in Cardiff 3 days per week and candidates must be able to comfortably travel.

We do not have the ability to provide sponsorship currently.