Intermediate AWS DevOps Consultant

The Role Help lead the design, automation, security, reliability, and operational excellence of a production AWS platform. You’ll work closely with software engineering teams to enable secure, reliable software delivery while maintaining highly available cloud environments. Focus: Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (40%)

• DevOps & CI/CD (30%)
• Automation & Software Engineering (30%) What You’ll Do Design, implement, and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure with strong resilience and disaster recovery. Own and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. Implement Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and Cloud. Formation. Apply least-privilege and Zero Trust principles; manage encryption, KMS, Secrets Manager, and remediate security findings. Support production environments, participate in on-call, drive root-cause analysis, and improve platform reliability. Mentor engineers, review infrastructure and application code, and lead modernisation initiatives. What You Bring Preferred: 5+ years in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering, with strong production AWS experience at scale (enterprise, startup, or scale-up). Alternative path considered: 6+ years with significant production ownership, deep AWS operational experience, strong automation capability, and rapid technical progression (startup/scale-up experience a plus). Core AWS skills: ECS, Lambda, VPC, Route53, Cloud. Front, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Cloud. Formation, AWS CDK, Organizations, cross-account architectures, and cloud security governance. Also required: Infrastructure as Code and automation Security fundamentals (encryption, IAM, least privilege, Zero Trust, Security by Design) Databases: PostgreSQL and DynamoDB Comfortable reading, understanding, and modifying application code; developing automation tooling and scripts Nice to have: EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Cloud. Watch, Event. Bridge, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Sonar. Qube, Snyk, Blue/Green deployments, and experience with AI-assisted engineering tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude). What Makes You Stand Out Startup or scale-up experience Ownership of production AWS platforms Experience building cloud platforms from the ground up Cloud transformation or modernisation track record Strong automation background Relevant tertiary qualification is advantageous but not essential. Equivalent practical experience will be considered.