DevOps Engineer (AWS/CloudFormation)

Role: DevOps Engineer

Location: UK, REMOTE

Salary: £70,000 to £80,000 basic plus benefits

NO SPONSORSHIP AVAILABLE

We have a great opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer to be the sole DevOps lead to set strategy and own day‐to‐day DevOps for the clients platform and AWS estate, with a heavy focus on GitLab CI/CD. Works closely with the Software Engineering team to streamline delivery and maintain secure, reliable infrastructure.

Must‐haves

• GitLab CI/CD: design, operate, and optimise pipelines; manage runners (EC2).
• AWS (hands‐on): EC2, IAM, VPC, networking, scaling, security baselines, cost awareness.
• CloudFormation (not Terraform): IaC patterns, modular stacks, change sets, drift detection.
• Sole‐operator capability: self‐starter; comfortable being the only DevOps engineer.
• Incident & reliability: monitoring/alerting (CloudWatch, dashboards), RCA, steady‐state ops.
• Software engineering literacy: understands TypeScript/JavaScript ecosystems; no day‐to‐day coding required but must collaborate effectively with engineers.

Nice‐to‐haves

• NX monorepo familiarity (tooling/implications for pipelines).
• eCommerce/Online/Web context
• Playwright integration experience (test automation in CI).
• Certifications (AWS/DevOps), New Relic (or similar).