AWS DevOps Engineer/SRE

AWS DevOps Engineer/SRE – Contract

Location: Staines/West London

Working pattern: Hybrid, 2 days per week on-site

Start date: May 2026

Initial contract: 6 months, with strong extension potential

IR35 status: Outside IR35

Rate: Market rates

Key responsibilities:

• Support and enhance AWS-based production platforms in an SRE capacity
• Operate and optimise containerised workloads using AWS ECS and Kubernetes/EKS
• Own and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Work with Ansible and Puppet for configuration management
• Build, maintain and troubleshoot GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines
• Own monitoring, logging and alerting using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki and/or CloudWatch
• Support incident management, root cause analysis and post-incident reviews
• Contribute to AWS security, backup, disaster recovery and cost optimisation best practice
• Work closely with software engineering teams to improve release quality, application resilience and production reliability

Required experience:

• Strong recent AWS DevOps/SRE experience in production environments
• Hands-on experience with AWS ECS, Terraform, Ansible and/or Puppet
• Strong Grafana experience, ideally with Prometheus, Loki and/or CloudWatch
• GitHub/GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD experience
• Solid Linux, networking and security fundamentals
• Experience supporting 24/7 production systems
• Good Scripting skills in Python, Bash or similar
• Software engineering background or strong application-level experience, ideally with JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Scala, Java, GraphQL or similar
• Kubernetes/EKS experience would be highly beneficial

Contract details:

• Initial 6-month contract
• Strong extension potential
• Outside IR35
• Hybrid working, 2 days per week on-site in Staines/West London
• Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK