Senior DevOps Engineer

Role : Senior DevOps Engineer Location: UK based Work pattern: Fully remote Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a growing Agile engineering team. This role will focus on supporting and maintaining existing cloud infrastructure, whilst also contributing to the design and development of modern, scalable, and high-performing infrastructure solutions. Team players are essential for us, as this position will include supporting the wider DevOps team by mentoring colleagues, sharing knowledge, and helping to build confidence across technical areas. You will also contribute to planning complex technical work, breaking down deliverables into manageable tasks, and supporting the team in managing uncertainty. In addition, we are looking for someone to play a key role in improving DevOps practices, bringing experience in infrastructure testing, Terraform best practices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and introducing alternative technologies where appropriate. You will work across a range of AWS technologies, supporting infrastructure hosted on services including ASGs, ECS, RDS Aurora MySQL, MSK, ElastiCache, S3, and Redshift Spectrum. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team during a period of technical growth, with platform upgrades and ongoing discussions around architecture, technology, and future direction. The ideal candidate will drive improvements to deployment processes, rollback strategies, monitoring, and migration approaches, while contributing to coding standards, peer reviews, and the adoption of new ideas and engineering best practices. What are we looking for? The Essentials Experience managing live production environments, including incidents, production changes, and new system rolloutsHighly proficient with Terraform, particularly within large-scale environmentsExperience designing and creating reusable Terraform modulesStrong familiarity with Bash/Shell scriptingAwareness of cloud costs and cost visibilityExperience deploying and maintaining PHP systems, including PHP 7 and PHP 8Strong experience working with Linux systems, particularly UbuntuFamiliarity with ETL processes and toolsExperience working with relational databases including SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQLExperience deploying and maintaining MPP data warehouses such as Snowflake or similarUnderstanding of Microservices architectureHigh proficiency with GitExperience using HashiCorp Packer for AMI builds5+ years of commercial experience in a DevOps or infrastructure-focused roleExperience working at scaleDeep hands-on experience with AWS, ideally with 5+ years' experience using: -ASG -ALB -ECS -CloudFront -Redshift -Lambda -ElastiCache -RDS (Aurora) -Control Tower The Desirables Previous experience with affiliate tracking, data integrations, or similar environmentsExperience delivering near-zero downtime database migrationsExperience writing automated tests and infrastructure testsMulti-cloud experienceExperience designing and supporting high-traffic applicationsStrong Python proficiencyExperience using, configuring, and deploying Docker containersExperience hosting APIs including REST and GraphQLExperience working with various database technologies, including NoSQLMentoring, team leadership, or management experienceExperience participating in on-call or out-of-hours supportExperience handling and manipulating large datasetsExperience hosting Single Page Applications and static websites, such as Nuxt.js or Next.jsExperience migrating legacy infrastructure into Infrastructure as Code using TerraformExperience with data engineering, particularly leveraging Machine Learning to gain insightsExperience with Laravel and PHP version upgradesExperience deploying and maintaining queuing and caching technologies including: -Kafka/MSK -Redis/Valkey -RabbitMQ What are the benefits? Fully remote workingFlexible working hoursBonus schemeEnhanced maternity and paternity benefitsSupportive working environmentRegular team events