DevOps Engineer

Major Recruitment Oldbury
Oldbury, West Midlands (county), B69 2AJ, United Kingdom
Today
£500 – £550 pd

Salary

£500 – £550 pd

Job Type
Contract
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Remote
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Posted
6 May 2026 (Today)

Major Recruitment Oldbury are delighted to be recruiting for our international client who are seeking a DevOps Engineer to start immediately to work on a 2-4 month contract. The role is fully remote and is £(Apply online only) per day.

Duties and tasks will include:

* Own the AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure for the product.

* Design and implement production-ready deployment architecture for backend, frontend, PostgreSQL, Redis, and object storage.

* Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for safe deployments, rollbacks, and environment promotion.

* Set up and manage secrets, environment configuration, certificates, DNS, and access controls.

* Define and maintain production-safe migration, backup, restore, and rollback procedures.

* Implement monitoring, alerting, health checks, logging, and operational dashboards.

* Improve security at the infrastructure and edge layers, including WAF, rate limiting, origin protection, and internal access controls.

* Design and manage traffic routing and availability using load balancers and related ingress components.

* Work closely with the full-stack engineer to make the application stable, deployable, and production-ready.

* Create clear runbooks for deployments, incidents, recovery, and day-to-day operations.

* Help shape scaling, resilience, and reliability strategy as usage grows.

Duties and tasks will include:

* Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.

* Strong hands-on experience with AWS.

* Strong hands-on experience with Docker and container-based deployments.

* Experience designing and operating infrastructure for production web applications.

* Experience with AWS ECS/Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache/Redis, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, ALB, and Secrets Manager.

* Experience with Cloudflare, especially DNS, WAF, rate limiting, and edge security.

* Strong experience with load balancers, ingress, routing, and production traffic management.

* Strong understanding of Linux, networking, reverse proxies, SSL/TLS, and infrastructure security.

* Strong security mindset with the ability to design and operate systems with secure-by-default principles.

* Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

* Experience with database migrations, backup/restore, and rollback planning.

* Experience setting up logging, monitoring, health checks, and alerting for production systems.

* Ability to work independently, take ownership, and make practical infrastructure decisions.

* Good communication skills and ability to collaborate closely with an application engineer.

* Comfortable working in a spec-driven and AI-assisted workflow, including familiarity with tools such as Codex, Claude Code, or similar engineering assistants.

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