Senior Developer – Cloud Automation & Monitoring

About the role

Join a leading UK organisation that powers one of the country’s most recognised digital platforms. As a Senior Developer you will design, automate and support the infrastructure that delivers critical services to millions of users.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy and manage automation and monitoring platforms for large‑scale applications.
• Build and maintain alerting, observability tooling and dashboards for stakeholders.
• Develop automation to integrate new systems using existing frameworks and manage job scheduling workflows.
• Create GitHub Actions pipelines for code deployment across test and production environments.
• Drive best practices around security, compliance, reliability and cost optimisation.
• Support capacity planning, troubleshooting and collaborate with technical leads, product owners and engineers.

Required profile

• Strong experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure automation.
• Hands‑on expertise with Terraform, Ansible and containerisation (Docker).
• Proficient Python development, including scripting and Lambda functions.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, Grafana, InfluxDB, Graphite or Sensu.
• Familiarity with serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge).
• Solid Linux/Unix administration and networking fundamentals.
• Comfort with collaboration tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Required skills

• AWS
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Docker
• Python
• Lambda
• GitHub Actions
• CI/CD pipelines
• AppDynamics
• Grafana
• InfluxDB
• Graphite
• Sensu
• Serverless (API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge)
• Linux/Unix
• TCP/IP, HTTP/S, APIs, encryption
• JIRA, Confluence
• Node.js, Java (exposure)
• Consul, Vault, ServiceNow ITOM (beneficial)

What we offer

• Annual bonus scheme and pension matching up to 8.5%.
• 26 days annual leave plus wellbeing days and bank holidays.
• Private medical cover, life assurance and enhanced parental leave.
• £500 annual wellbeing allowance, nutrition advice, personal training and health assessments.
• Financial coaching and wellbeing support.
• Opportunity to contribute to a large‑scale technology transformation with societal impact.
• Collaborative culture focused on innovation, inclusion and continuous improvement.