DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer (Manchester)

Looking for a DevOps role where you'll genuinely own the platform rather than spend your days firefighting legacy infrastructure?

We're partnering with an innovative technology business that's rebuilding its cloud platform from the ground up using a modern AWS stack. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a clean, containerised environment, shape how it's operated, and play a key role in scaling a high-traffic platform as the business continues to grow.

If you enjoy building reliable, automated cloud infrastructure without the overhead of managing Kubernetes clusters, this could be the role for you.

The Role

As the DevOps Engineer, you'll take ownership of the company's AWS platform, ensuring it's secure, scalable, reliable and cost-efficient as it moves into full production.

Working closely with engineering teams, you'll drive automation, improve deployment pipelines, strengthen observability and ensure the platform performs under high-volume, real-time workloads.

This is a hands-on position with genuine ownership and plenty of opportunity to influence how the platform evolves.

What You'll Be Doing

• Owning and operating a modern AWS cloud platform in production
• Managing containerised workloads using ECS Fargate
• Building and improving Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Maintaining and enhancing CI/CD pipelines with blue/green deployments and automated rollback
• Driving platform reliability, resilience and scalability
• Developing monitoring, alerting and observability across the environment
• Managing cloud costs and implementing best FinOps practices
• Participating in a small production on-call rota

Technology

• AWS
• ECS Fargate
• Terraform
• Aurora & RDS
• DynamoDB
• ElastiCache
• Lambda
• CloudFront
• Cognito
• GitHub Actions
• OpenTelemetry
• CloudWatch

What We're Looking For

You'll ideally have experience owning production cloud environments and enjoy taking responsibility for the stability and performance of critical platforms.

We're particularly interested in engineers with experience across:

• AWS infrastructure and cloud-native services
• Container platforms (ECS/Fargate preferred)
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD automation
• High-availability production environments
• Monitoring and observability
• Cloud cost optimisation and governance

Desirable

• Multi-region AWS environments
• Chaos Engineering or resilience testing
• Cloud security tooling and posture management

Why Apply?

• Modern AWS platform with no legacy infrastructure
• No Kubernetes administration
• High level of ownership and technical autonomy
• Greenfield engineering environment
• Opportunity to influence platform strategy from an early stage
• Work alongside a highly technical engineering team

If you're looking for a role where you can take real ownership of a modern AWS platform and have a genuine impact on its future, we'd love to hear from you.

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