Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

We are working with a fast-growing and well established software team in NI to recruit for a Senior DevOps Engineer.

This company offer a perfect balance of job security combined with career growth opportunity in a collaborative and friendly environment.

The salary package on offer is:

• Salary: £60k, Bonus 10%, Pension, healthcare, Hybrid working.

Role Responsibilities

• Define and execute DevOps modernization strategy using current technologies and practices.
• Build internal tooling and automate software development, testing, and delivery pipelines.
• Eliminate manual release processes through full CI/CD automation.
• Enhance production stability via improved processes and observability tools.
• Support application teams in adopting consistent DevOps tools, cloud/on-prem automation, and agile delivery practices.
• Collaborate with vendors to accelerate adoption of best-in-class tools and methods.
• Design and support solutions using containerization and serverless technologies.
• Drive automation for environment setup, logging, and monitoring.
• Perform additional duties as needed.

Experience / Competencies

Essential

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science.
• 5+ years leading DevOps initiatives
• Proven success delivering DevOps transformation and automation improvements.
• Metrics-driven approach to process and productivity optimization.
• Strong grasp of modern DevOps and SRE principles.
• Deep experience with AWS services.
• Skilled in integrating automated testing (unit, integration, smoke) into CI/CD pipelines.

Desired

• Experience with Agile/SAFe and Lean delivery.
• Knowledge of automation and observability tools across the SDLC.
• OS: Windows Server, Amazon Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu.
• Scripting: Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, Groovy.
• Programming: Java, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, C++.
• Tooling: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and pipelines as code.