AWS DevOps Engineer - AirFlow

Summary: The AWS DevOps Engineer - AirFlow role involves deploying and managing cloud infrastructure for financial services, focusing on tools like Astronomer Airflow. The position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure high availability and performance of cloud environments. The contract is set to last until the end of the year, with a requirement for in-office presence 2-3 days a week. Candidates must demonstrate relevant competencies to be considered for the role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deploy comprehensive cloud infrastructure for various products, including Astronomer Airflow and AccelData environments.
• Facilitate cross-functional integration between vendor products and other systems, such as data lakes, storage, and compute services.
• Establish best practices for cloud security, scalability, and performance.
• Manage and configure vendor product deployments, ensuring the setup and maintenance of environments.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance of Airflow clusters.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging for Airflow and related components.
• Perform upgrades and patches for platform-related components.
• Oversee capacity planning, resource allocation, and optimization of Airflow workers.
• Maintain and configure integrations with source control systems (eg, GitHub, GitLab) for version control.
• Collaborate with cloud providers (eg, AWS) for pipeline integration and scaling requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimising data delivery, and automating manual processes.
• Develop infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from various sources using AWS and SQL technologies.
• Work with stakeholders, including design, product, and executive teams, to address platform-related technical issues.
• Build analytical tools to leverage the data pipeline, providing actionable insights into key business performance metrics, such as operational efficiency and customer acquisition.

Key Skills:

• Experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure deployment.
• Proficiency in managing Airflow and related components.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, scalability, and performance best practices.
• Experience with source control systems like GitHub and GitLab.
• Ability to implement monitoring and logging solutions.
• Knowledge of SQL technologies for data extraction and transformation.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in capacity planning and resource optimization.
• Ability to develop analytical tools for business insights.

Salary (Rate): £400 per day

City: Manchester

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Job Title: AWS DevOps Engineer - AirFlow
Location: Manchester Area - 2/3 days per week in the office
Salary/Rate: Up to £400 per day INSIDE IR35
Start Date: 13/10/2025
Job Type: Contract

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading financial services clients! They are currently looking for a skilled AWS DevOps Engineer to join their team for an initial contract until the end of the year.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• Deploy comprehensive cloud infrastructure for various products, including Astronomer Airflow and AccelData environments.
• Facilitate cross-functional integration between vendor products and other systems, such as data lakes, storage, and compute services.
• Establish best practices for cloud security, scalability, and performance.
• Manage and configure vendor product deployments, ensuring the setup and maintenance of environments.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance of Airflow clusters.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging for Airflow and related components.
• Perform upgrades and patches for platform-related components.
• Oversee capacity planning, resource allocation, and optimization of Airflow workers.
• Maintain and configure integrations with source control systems (eg, GitHub, GitLab) for version control.
• Collaborate with cloud providers (eg, AWS) for pipeline integration and scaling requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimising data delivery, and automating manual processes.
• Develop infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from various sources using AWS and SQL technologies.
• Work with stakeholders, including design, product, and executive teams, to address platform-related technical issues.
• Build analytical tools to leverage the data pipeline, providing actionable insights into key business performance metrics, such as operational efficiency and customer acquisition

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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