DevOps Lead Engineer (AWS) Outside IR35 - Fully Remote

DevOps Lead Engineer (AWS) Outside IR35 - Fully Remote

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Summary: The DevOps Lead Engineer will play a crucial role in leading the DevOps function for a prominent Financial Services client on a 6-month rolling contract. This position focuses on shaping architecture, driving automation, and ensuring system resilience and scalability, requiring a strong background in AWS, Java-based microservices, and Terraform. The ideal candidate will also possess excellent communication and leadership skills to foster a DevOps culture within the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the design and implementation of DevOps practices across the software development lifecycle.
  • Architect, build, and manage highly available, secure, and scalable AWS infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to build and deploy Java-based microservices.
  • Define and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
  • Lead the development of CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, and deployment.
  • Enforce and evolve best practices around system reliability, monitoring, and observability.
  • Drive a DevOps culture through education, mentoring, and hands-on leadership.
  • Ensure compliance with security, risk, and regulatory requirements within a financial services context.
  • Partner with product, security, and compliance teams to deliver business value with high operational excellence.
  • Troubleshoot production issues and lead incident response efforts.

Key Skills:

  • Proven experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
  • Strong experience with AWS core services (EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
  • Hands-on development background with Java and microservices-based architecture.
  • Expertise in Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
  • Experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines (eg, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
  • Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, CloudWatch).
  • Good understanding of networking, security best practices, and system administration.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills - able to work across technical and non-technical teams.
  • Experience working in regulated environments, preferably within financial services.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

We are searching for a DevOps Lead Engineer to join a leading Financial Services client on a 6-month rolling contract.

This role will be pivotal in leading the DevOps function, shaping architecture, driving automation, and ensuring the resilience and scalability of our systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong engineering background in AWS, Java-based microservices, Terraform, and infrastructure automation, coupled with excellent communication and leadership skills.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of DevOps practices across the software development lifecycle.

  • Architect, build, and manage highly available, secure, and scalable AWS infrastructure.

  • Collaborate with engineering teams to build and deploy Java-based microservices.

  • Define and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.

  • Lead the development of CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, and deployment.

  • Enforce and evolve best practices around system reliability, monitoring, and observability.

  • Drive a DevOps culture through education, mentoring, and hands-on leadership.

  • Ensure compliance with security, risk, and regulatory requirements within a financial services context.

  • Partner with product, security, and compliance teams to deliver business value with high operational excellence.

  • Troubleshoot production issues and lead incident response efforts.

Key Requirements

  • Proven experience DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.

  • Strong experience with AWS core services (EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).

  • Hands-on development background with Java and microservices-based architecture.

  • Expertise in Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.

  • Experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines (eg, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).

  • Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

  • Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, CloudWatch).

  • Good understanding of networking, security best practices, and system administration.

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills - able to work across technical and non-technical teams.

  • Experience working in regulated environments, preferably within financial services.

Preferred Qualifications

  • AWS certifications (eg, Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).

  • Familiarity with compliance standards such as ISO, SOC 2, or PCI-DSS.

  • Knowledge of service mesh technologies and API gateways..

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