Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (Contract)
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£550 Per day
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Remote
UK; London; Birmingham; Manchester; Glasgow; Liverpool; Leeds; Edinburgh; Bristol; Cardiff; Nottingham
Summary: The Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (Contract) role involves leading the delivery of scalable and secure cloud infrastructure for a technology organization. The position focuses on building and optimizing AWS environments, supporting serverless and containerized applications, and ensuring best practices in AWS security. This contract role is remote but requires candidates to be based in the UK. The contract duration is six months with a competitive daily rate.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including modules, state management, and remote backends
- Lead on AWS cloud architecture across services such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, ECS, and Lambda
- Develop and maintain serverless and event-driven architectures
- Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using Git-based workflows
- Ensure AWS security best practices (IAM, least privilege, secrets management) are implemented
- Drive cost optimisation and right-sizing strategies across cloud environments
- Produce clear technical documentation for infrastructure and processes
- Support development of lightweight UI layers to surface backend data
Key Skills:
- Strong Terraform expertise (modules, remote state, best practices)
- Experience programming for Lambda functions and ECS containers
- Solid understanding of serverless architectures and event-driven design
- Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows
- Knowledge of AWS cost optimisation and cloud security principles
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly
- Desirable: Experience with AWS Glue, Kinesis, Step Functions, Splunk, SOAR tools, and modern front-end frameworks
Salary (Rate): £550 per day
City: undetermined
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (Contract) Location: Remote, must be based in the UK Rate: £500 - £550 per day (Outside IR35) Duration: 6 months
A leading organisation within the technology sector is seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to lead on the delivery of scalable, secure cloud infrastructure. This contract role focuses on building and optimising AWS environments, enabling robust serverless and containerised applications, and supporting data-driven platforms.
AWS DevOps Engineer Responsibilities:
- Deliver Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including modules, state management, and remote backends
- Lead on AWS cloud architecture across services such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, ECS, and Lambda
- Develop and maintain serverless and event-driven architectures
- Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using Git-based workflows
- Ensure AWS security best practices (IAM, least privilege, secrets management) are implemented
- Drive cost optimisation and right-sizing strategies across cloud environments
- Produce clear technical documentation for infrastructure and processes
- Support development of lightweight UI layers to surface backend data
AWS DevOps Engineer Requirements:
- Strong Terraform expertise (modules, remote state, best practices)
- Experience programming for Lambda functions and ECS containers
- Solid understanding of serverless architectures and event-driven design
- Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows
- Knowledge of AWS cost optimisation and cloud security principles
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly
Desirable: Experience with AWS Glue, Kinesis, Step Functions, Splunk, SOAR tools, and modern front-end frameworks
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