DevOps Engineer
Posted 1 week ago by Major Recruitment Oldbury
£550 Per day
Undetermined
Remote
Oldbury, West Midlands
Summary: Major Recruitment is seeking a DevOps Engineer for an international client to work on a fully remote 2-4 month contract. The role involves managing AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure, designing deployment architectures, and implementing CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in DevOps and a strong security mindset. The position offers a competitive daily rate of £500-550.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure for the product.
- Design and implement production-ready deployment architecture for backend, frontend, PostgreSQL, Redis, and object storage.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for safe deployments, rollbacks, and environment promotion.
- Set up and manage secrets, environment configuration, certificates, DNS, and access controls.
- Define and maintain production-safe migration, backup, restore, and rollback procedures.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, health checks, logging, and operational dashboards.
- Improve security at the infrastructure and edge layers, including WAF, rate limiting, origin protection, and internal access controls.
- Design and manage traffic routing and availability using load balancers and related ingress components.
- Work closely with the full-stack engineer to make the application stable, deployable, and production-ready.
- Create clear runbooks for deployments, incidents, recovery, and day-to-day operations.
- Help shape scaling, resilience, and reliability strategy as usage grows.
Key Skills:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
- Strong hands-on experience with Docker and container-based deployments.
- Experience designing and operating infrastructure for production web applications.
- Experience with AWS ECS/Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache/Redis, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, ALB, and Secrets Manager.
- Experience with Cloudflare, especially DNS, WAF, rate limiting, and edge security.
- Strong experience with load balancers, ingress, routing, and production traffic management.
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, reverse proxies, SSL/TLS, and infrastructure security.
- Strong security mindset with the ability to design and operate systems with secure-by-default principles.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with database migrations, backup/restore, and rollback planning.
- Experience setting up logging, monitoring, health checks, and alerting for production systems.
- Ability to work independently, take ownership, and make practical infrastructure decisions.
- Good communication skills and ability to collaborate closely with an application engineer.
- Comfortable working in a spec-driven and AI-assisted workflow, including familiarity with tools such as Codex, Claude Code, or similar engineering assistants.
Salary (Rate): £550/day
City: Oldbury
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Major Recruitment Oldbury are delighted to be recruiting for our international client who are seeking a DevOps Engineer to start immediately to work on a 2-4 month contract. The role is fully remote and is £500-550 per day.
Duties and tasks will include:
- Own the AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure for the product.
- Design and implement production-ready deployment architecture for backend, frontend, PostgreSQL, Redis, and object storage.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for safe deployments, rollbacks, and environment promotion.
- Set up and manage secrets, environment configuration, certificates, DNS, and access controls.
- Define and maintain production-safe migration, backup, restore, and rollback procedures.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, health checks, logging, and operational dashboards.
- Improve security at the infrastructure and edge layers, including WAF, rate limiting, origin protection, and internal access controls.
- Design and manage traffic routing and availability using load balancers and related ingress components.
- Work closely with the full-stack engineer to make the application stable, deployable, and production-ready.
- Create clear runbooks for deployments, incidents, recovery, and day-to-day operations.
- Help shape scaling, resilience, and reliability strategy as usage grows.
Duties and tasks will include:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
- Strong hands-on experience with Docker and container-based deployments.
- Experience designing and operating infrastructure for production web applications.
- Experience with AWS ECS/Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache/Redis, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, ALB, and Secrets Manager.
- Experience with Cloudflare, especially DNS, WAF, rate limiting, and edge security.
- Strong experience with load balancers, ingress, routing, and production traffic management.
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, reverse proxies, SSL/TLS, and infrastructure security.
- Strong security mindset with the ability to design and operate systems with secure-by-default principles.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with database migrations, backup/restore, and rollback planning.
- Experience setting up logging, monitoring, health checks, and alerting for production systems.
- Ability to work independently, take ownership, and make practical infrastructure decisions.
- Good communication skills and ability to collaborate closely with an application engineer.
- Comfortable working in a spec-driven and AI-assisted workflow, including familiarity with tools such as Codex, Claude Code, or similar engineering assistants.