DevOps Engineer
Role: DevOps Engineer
Location: Crewe (Hybrid - 3 days onsite per week)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time
A fantastic opportunity has become available for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a growing technology team building a feature-rich platform supporting the fast-moving Electric Vehicle (EV) sector.
This is a hands-on role working within a collaborative, high-performing environment, where you'll be responsible for improving deployment automation, scaling infrastructure, enhancing reliability, and driving best practices across modern DevOps tooling and processes.
The team is working at pace on a platform with rapidly evolving requirements, offering excellent scope for innovation, ownership, and technical progression.
The Role
As a DevOps Engineer, you will:
Build and maintain deployment automation across a large application portfolio
Deliver infrastructure provisioning and scaling using IaC (Cloud Development Kit or Terraform)
Support application configuration, optimisation, and migration into high-availability setups
Manage database deployments and contribute to performance planning
Carry out load testing, capacity planning, and performance monitoring
Investigate incidents, resolve issues, and improve system reliability
Work closely with developers using modern CI/CD workflows and container orchestration
This role reports into the Development Manager and can be office-based or hybrid (3 days per week onsite in Crewe).
Key Skills & Experience
Essential
Strong AWS experience - EC2, EKS, RDS, Aurora, networking, and cost optimisation
Confident with building & deploying C# / .NET applications
Experience with NuGet package management in CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code experience using CDK or Terraform
CI/CD experience with AWS CodePipeline or GitLab CI/CD
Solid Linux administration skills
Docker and Kubernetes experience
Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP
Knowledge of security best practice for web application deployments
Experience with monitoring & logging tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana)
Web application firewall experience (AWS WAF, Cloudflare)
Desirable
PostgreSQL and MSSQL administration
Azure cloud services
KongHQ / AWS API Gateway
Azure DevOps
CloudFront and other CDNs
SSL certificate management, configuration hardening, domain setup
Performance tuning and load testing
Experience with pipeline-based mobile app builds / remote Mac builders
What's on Offer
Competitive salary and benefits package
Pension & life assurance
Employee fuel card scheme
Electric vehicle scheme
Employee assistance programme
Wellness and healthcare services
Cycle to work scheme
Free breakfast onsite
Modern purpose-built office with gym, caf and bar
If you're an experienced DevOps Engineer looking to make a real impact on scalable, cloud-driven platforms in the EV and sustainability space, click apply now.
- Company
- Applause IT Recruitment Ltd
- Location
- Crewe, Cheshire, United Kingdom CW1
Hybrid/Remote Options - Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- GBP Annual
- Posted
- Company
- Applause IT Recruitment Ltd
- Location
- Crewe, Cheshire, United Kingdom CW1
Hybrid/Remote Options - Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- GBP Annual
- Posted