Role Overview
We are looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team. You will focus exclusively on AWS and Amazon EKS, automating infrastructure with Terraform, orchestrating containers via EKS, building robust CI/CD with GitOps, and implementing strong monitoring, observability, and IAM concepts to support secure, high performance, cost optimised systems. You will work closely with developers and SREs in an automation first, collaborative culture.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and rollouts in AWS/EKS.
- Manage and optimise Amazon EKS clusters for container orchestration in production.
- Implement and evolve Infrastructure as Code using Terraform on AWS.
- Support live production AWS/EKS environments, including on call rotation, incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless post mortems.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, scaling, observability, and secure workload access across AWS services.
- Collaborate on improving system reliability, observability, security (DevSecOps/EKS IAM), and AWS cost optimisation.
Qualifications
- Strong Linux system administration experience (file systems, processes, networking, troubleshooting, bash scripting).
- Proficiency in scripting and programming with Python and Bash/Shell; Go or TypeScript is a nice to have.
- Experience with Git workflows, branching strategies, and version control best practices.
- Proficiency with AWS core services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, and EKS, with production grade experience required.
- Solid experience with Amazon EKS, including cluster creation, node groups, add ons, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Infrastructure as Code expertise, strongly preferring Terraform with AWS provider/modules experience.
- Familiarity with Helm charts and Kustomize for packaging, templating, versioning, and deploying Kubernetes applications in EKS environments.
- Hands on building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD, plus ArgoCD (GitOps).
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and integration with AWS services.
- Solid understanding of AWS EKS IAM concepts, including IAM Roles for Service Accounts, EKS Access Entries and Access Policies, and EKS Cluster IAM Role and Node IAM Role configuration.
- Experience analysing and optimising AWS costs using tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer, and EKS workload right sizing.
Skills
- 3+ years of hands on experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or infrastructure engineering focused on AWS/EKS environments.
- Proven track record building and maintaining production grade CI/CD pipelines with AWS and Kubernetes.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or equivalent practical experience (degree optional).
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills, especially under pressure in production AWS/EKS setups.
- Automation first mindset with a passion for continuous improvement.
- Growth mindset, eager to learn, adapt to evolving AWS/EKS technologies, and turn incidents into actionable learning.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross functional stakeholders, including engineering, SRE, security, and product teams.
- Maintain clear technical documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks for production systems.
Benefits
- Dynamic and team orientated work environment.
- Opportunities for personal growth and learning.
- Open, inclusive, and supportive team culture with valued contributions.
- 26 days paid holiday per year plus local public holidays.
- Competitive salary.
- Risk benefits such as pension and life assurance (4x annual salary) and private medical insurance.
- Team building activities.
- Local discounts and more.