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AWS DevOps Engineer

ISR Recruitment
United Kingdom
Last week
£475 – £525 pd

Salary

£475 – £525 pd

Job Type
Contract
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Remote
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
20 May 2026 (Last week)
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AWS DevOps Engineer

Contract (6-months)

Remote Working

Market Rates (c£475 to £525 per day)

The Opportunity:

Our client is currently seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer for an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the design, automation and optimisation of secure, scalable cloud-native infrastructure within a modern AWS environment consulting on a major central government project (Government Digital Services).

The successful candidate will work across complex cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes-based microservices architectures, helping to drive infrastructure automation, operational resilience and platform scalability.

This role would suit a technically strong and delivery-focused DevOps professional with deep AWS experience and a strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration and event-driven architectures.

Role and Responsibilities:

* Design, deploy and manage scalable AWS cloud infrastructure environments using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles

* Build, optimise and maintain CI/CD pipelines using technologies such as GitHub Actions and Flux

* Manage and support Kubernetes (AWS EKS) environments for containerised application deployments

* Configure and maintain Service Mesh technologies such as Istio across Kubernetes clusters

* Implement Kubernetes configuration management using technologies, including Kustomize

* Securely configure and deploy AWS API Gateway solutions

* Design and implement operational monitoring, logging and alerting capabilities

* Deploy and maintain event-driven microservices architectures including Apache Kafka

* Develop automation scripts and tooling using Python, Bash or PowerShell

* Work closely with engineering and platform teams to support infrastructure reliability, deployment automation and operational best practice

* Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across platform engineering, observability and cloud operations

Support and optimise AWS networking configurations including:

* VPCs

* Subnets

* Routing

* Load balancing

* DNS management

Skills and Experience:

* Strong commercial experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and platform engineering

* Proven expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

* Strong CI/CD pipeline engineering experience using GitHub Actions and Flux

* Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes (AWS EKS) environments

* Experience with Service Mesh technologies such as Istio

* Kubernetes configuration management experience using Kustomize or similar technologies

* Strong experience deploying and securing AWS API Gateway solutions

* Experience implementing monitoring and alerting solutions within cloud-native environments

* Strong understanding of AWS networking concepts and cloud architecture

* Experience supporting event-driven microservices architectures using Apache Kafka

* Scripting and automation experience using Python, Bash or PowerShell

* Strong Git/version control experience using GitHub or GitLab

NB: The successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic level of security clearance before undertaking the assignment (around two weeks’ lead-time).

Applications:

Please contact James here at ISR to learn more about our client and how they are leading the way in developing the next generation of technical solutions through innovation and transformational technology?

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