DevOps Engineer - Terraform

DevOps Engineer

Hybrid Working - Edinburgh OR London - 2 days a week on site.

Financial Services

Lorien's leading banking client is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join them.

Take a hands-on lead role in designing, implementing, and optimising secure, scalable AWS infrastructure to support cloud-native applications. Champion DevOps best practices, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate across functions to drive automation, reliability, and operational excellence.

This role is based in Edinburgh OR London.

This role will be Via Umbrella.

Working in a Hybrid Model of 2 days a week on site.

Key Experience

  • Architect and manage AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
  • Lead the hands-on development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and ArgoCD.
  • Design and operate containerised workloads with EKS, Fargate, and Kubernetes.
  • Manage Kubernetes deployments using Helm charts.
  • Implement observability solutions using OpenTelemetry (OTel), Grafana, and Splunk.
  • Optimise infrastructure with Karpenter for autoscaling and cost efficiency.
  • Ensure robust AWS networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Route 53) and enforce security best practices.
  • Drive incident response, monitoring, and performance tuning.

Key Technologies:

  • AWS (EKS, Fargate, EC2, S3)
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • GitLab
  • ArgoCD
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Cassandra
  • OTel
  • Grafana
  • Splunk
  • Karpenter
  • Python

Desirable: Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Apigee Hybrid, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.

IND_PC3

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Job Details

Company
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / Remote Options
Employment Type
Contractor
Salary
Salary negotiable
Posted