Senior DevOps Engineer - Operations

Job summary

The Senior DevOps Engineer - Operations leads a team focused on maintaining, securing, and optimizing AWS cloud environments. Responsibilities include managing identity and access controls, driving continuous optimization initiatives, and overseeing platform lifecycle management while applying ITIL best practices and FinOps principles to enhance performance and reliability.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience designing, managing, and optimising AWS cloud environments at scale.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and FinOps principles.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, governance, and compliance frameworks.
• Proactive, outcomes-focused mindset with a passion for continuous improvement.
• Proven experience leading or managing technical teams within Cloud or DevOps environments.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day operation, maintenance, and performance of complex AWS cloud environments.
• Act as the primary escalation point for platform issues, driving rapid incident response and resolution.
• Manage identity and access controls, ensuring secure provisioning and adherence to least-privilege principles.
• Drive continuous optimisation initiatives to improve platform performance, reliability, security, and efficiency.
• Identify and implement cloud cost optimisation strategies, leveraging FinOps best practices to maximise value.
• Review and evolve cloud architectures using the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Oversee platform lifecycle management, including upgrades, patching, and security governance.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing cloud engineering team.

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Relocation