Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer

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. Design, build and operate AWS cloud infrastructure, including IAM, EC2, EKS, networking, databases, serverless and analytics services .

Posted 10/9/2026full-timeRemote • United KingdomSenior💰 £70,000 - £85,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive hands-on experience in AWS cloud infrastructure design and management, with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and security practices. Proficient in scripting with Python and implementing observability and incident response strategies in production environments.

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AWS Cloud Infrastructure ManagementInfrastructure as Code with TerraformCI/CD Pipeline Design and ImplementationSRE Practices and Incident ResponseContainerization with Docker and Kubernetes

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Hard Skills

AWSTerraformPythonCI/CDDockerKubernetesObservabilityInfrastructure as CodeNetworkingSecurity Controls

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationCollaborationProblem-SolvingTechnical Leadership

Tools & Technologies

Microsoft 365ZTNAMonitoring ToolsLogging ToolsTracing Tools

Certifications & Qualifications

SOC 2Cyber Essentials Plus

Industry Keywords

Infrastructure ManagementDevOpsMulti-Tenant SystemsAccess ControlsIncident Response

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerEC2JavaKotlinKubernetesPythonReactTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build and operate AWS cloud infrastructure, including IAM, EC2, EKS, networking, databases, serverless and analytics services
Own Terraform infrastructure-as-code and delivery pipelines across environments
Design for resilience, maintainability, availability, security, observability, capacity and operability
Integrate and configure third-party services securely and reliably
Use Python and other languages to automate DevOps tasks and support production capabilities
Identify, document and remediate infrastructure and platform-level technical risks
Design, build and maintain fast, reliable and secure CI/CD pipelines
Build infrastructure-as-code security and guardrail solutions, including Helm charts, OPA policies and EKS admission controllers
Improve build, test, release and deployment workflows with Engineering
Contribute to environment and release management strategies
Support Engineers during rollouts and deployments
Collaborate with Engineering on application constraints and platform decisions
Read, debug and reason about application code to support root-cause analysis and informed infrastructure decisions
Represent DevOps in architecture, design and planning discussions
Own infrastructure and delivery initiatives from proposal through delivery and operations
Research emerging tools and practices and propose platform and operational improvements
Support technical direction-setting and cover senior technical decisions when needed
Document technical decisions through ADRs/RFCs and contribute to team standards and architectures
Design observability using metrics, logs, tracing and alerting
Apply SRE practices, lead incident response and blameless post-incident reviews, and eliminate recurring issues
Improve signal quality, reduce alert noise and close observability gaps
Evaluate and improve security resilience, IT/network controls and audit evidence
Support corporate IT infrastructure, including Microsoft 365 and ZTNA
Assist with SOC 2 and Cyber Essentials Plus compliance evidence, controls and remediation
Participate in on-call rotas and share ownership of infrastructure and delivery platforms

Requirements

What you’ll need

Must be based within the UK
No visa sponsorship provided
Extensive, hands-on infrastructure experience, including deep network architecture design, troubleshooting and reasoning
Experience developing, deploying and supporting complex infrastructures
Production-grade Infrastructure as Code experience, including design, state management and multi-environment workflows
Scripting experience with languages such as Python
Deep AWS knowledge across compute, networking, storage, IAM and managed services in a multi-account setup
In-depth understanding of access controls, encryption, networking concepts and protocols
Proven production experience designing and operating CI/CD delivery pipelines
Experience with containerisation and orchestration, such as Docker and Kubernetes
Experience implementing security and guardrail controls in Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes environments
Experience with monitoring and observability tooling, including metrics, logging, tracing and alerting
SRE experience or equivalent, including production reliability, incident response and SLIs/SLOs
Recent hands-on experience developing and supporting modern, multi-tenant systems
Experience using AI-assisted tooling and workflows in day-to-day engineering
Current DevOps practices and close collaboration with developers/engineers
Track record of owning technical initiatives from design through delivery with minimal oversight
Ability to operate as a credible technical peer in senior/lead-level design and architecture discussions
Software development knowledge sufficient to read and reason about backend and/or frontend application code
Understanding of resilience, security and operability, including failover, backup/recovery, least-privilege access, secrets management and observability
Strong written and verbal communication
Desirable: experience in a small or mid-sized organisation with separate but tightly coupled DevOps and Engineering teams
Desirable: ADR and RFC practices
Desirable: hands-on Kotlin/Java and/or React development experience
Desirable: Microsoft 365 administration and/or ZTNA network solutions
Desirable: SOC 2 and/or Cyber Essentials Plus certification or renewal support

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully-remote work
Flexible working
Autoenrollment in the pension scheme with contributions from FXE
25 days annual leave PLUS UK Bank Holidays
Talent Referral Scheme
Regular socials and team get togethers