DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer for a 6-month hybrid contract, with the potential to transition into a permanent position.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to high-impact projects, collaborate with a talented technical team, and leverage modern tools and practices to drive operational excellence

An ideal candidate will possess:

• 3+ years of experience working as a DevOps engineer.
• Extensive experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Confidence creating modular CI/CD workflows (ideally in GitHub Actions).
• Deep knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Strong grasp of secure networking principles and security-first architecture.
• A very solid understanding of Docker and Kubernetes (Helm experience NB).
• Experience in managing Linux servers and scripting with Bash or Python.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, Graylog, Opensearch).
• Experience managing incidents and monitoring uptime with tools like PagerDuty.
• A practical, detail-oriented mindset with the ability to write concise technical documentation.
• Strong communication skills, able to articulate decisions and rationale to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Design and manage scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments.
• Monitor system health and ensure high uptime with observability best practices.
• Partner with engineers to optimise development workflows and release processes.
• Lead incident response efforts and continuously improve reliability practices.
• Ensure infrastructure meets compliance, security, and regulatory standards.
• Maintain and improve logging, monitoring, and alerting systems across environments.
• Document architecture decisions and operational processes clearly and accessibly.

• Ensuring zero-downtime deployments in a distributed microservice architecture.
• Scaling infrastructure cost-effectively as transaction volumes increase.
• Creating developer tooling that supports velocity without sacrificing reliability.
• Balancing security, compliance, and speed in a complex payments environment.