DevOps Engineer

AWS DevOps Engineer

Contract | ASAP Start - End Date 31/07/2026 (extension available)

Fully Remote

BPSS Eligible Required

We are supporting a long-term programme to modernise a legacy healthcare platform, moving from a traditional PHP-based application to a cloud-native, largely serverless architecture on AWS.

We are looking for a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer who is comfortable getting deep into infrastructure, pipelines and security, and who has previously worked in regulated healthcare environments.

This is a hands-on engineering role rather than a high-level advisory position. You will be expected to design, build, improve and operate the platform day to day.

Key responsibilities

Cloud architecture and platform engineering

• Re-platform a legacy PHP application to a modern AWS environment with a strong serverless bias
• Design and operate workloads across AWS services including EKS, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB, EC2, S3 and API Gateway
• Support containerised workloads running on EKS, including cluster configuration, scaling and upgrades
• Ensure high availability, performance and cost efficiency across all environments

Infrastructure as Code

• Design, build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Manage AWS resources such as networking, IAM, compute, storage and databases via reusable Terraform modules
• Support environment parity across Development, Test and Production
• Drive cost optimisation and scalable infrastructure patterns

CI/CD and automation

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Automate build, test and deployment processes for application and infrastructure changes
• Improve pipeline reliability, reduce manual steps and minimise deployment risk
• Support blue green or rolling deployment strategies where appropriate

Security and compliance

• Integrate security scanning into CI/CD pipelines using SAST tools such as SonarCloud and Gitleaks
• Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle
• Work within healthcare and BPSS-related security constraints
• Contribute to improving security posture, IAM policies and secrets management

Testing and quality

• Support automated testing strategies across Development and Test environments
• Ensure infrastructure and application changes are validated before promotion
• Work closely with engineering teams to proactively identify and resolve issues
• Support agile delivery practices with fast feedback loops

Required experience

• Mid to Senior level AWS DevOps or Platform Engineer
• Strong hands-on AWS experience across both serverless and containerised workloads
• Solid Terraform experience in production environments
• Strong CI/CD experience, ideally using GitHub Actions
• Experience integrating security tooling into pipelines
• Previous experience working in the healthcare sector
• Comfortable working in regulated environments with formal security processes