DevOps Engineer – Cloud Platforms (AWS)

About the role

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our growing technology team in Newcastle upon Tyne. You will work at the heart of a modern AWS environment, ensuring our cloud platforms are secure, resilient and highly available while supporting continuous delivery and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and support AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda and networking components.
• Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild and related tooling.
• Support containerised application deployments using Docker and Amazon ECS.
• Automate operational processes with Python, Shell scripting and AWS-native services.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation, AWS CDK and/or Terraform.
• Monitor platform performance, availability and system health.
• Support incident response, root‑cause analysis and continuous service improvement.
• Collaborate with developers, testers and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions.
• Contribute to platform reliability, disaster recovery and cloud cost optimisation initiatives.
• Produce technical documentation, operational procedures and runbooks.

Required profile

• Commercial experience in a DevOps, Cloud Engineering or Platform Engineering role.
• Strong AWS experience across core services such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM and CloudWatch.
• Hands‑on experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines, particularly with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild.
• Experience deploying and supporting containerised workloads using Docker and Amazon ECS.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code principles and tools (CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform).
• Scripting experience using Python or Shell.
• Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Understanding of monitoring, logging and observability.
• Proficiency with Git‑based source control workflows.
• Strong problem‑solving and communication abilities.

Required skills

• AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch)
• AWS CodePipeline
• AWS CodeBuild
• Docker
• Amazon ECS
• CloudFormation
• AWS CDK
• Terraform
• Python
• Shell scripting
• Linux administration
• Git