AWS DevOps/Platform Engineer

AWS DevOps/Platform Engineer 12-Month contract - Inside IR35 - up to £550 per day London based - hybrid working - 4 days a week onsite

Financial sector

We are supporting a global financial services client (hedge fund) on the hire of a mid-level AWS DevOps / Platform Engineer to work within a high-performing technology environment.

This is a hands on engineering role, focused on building and supporting cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform reliability.

Role Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar)
• Support containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes / EKS)
• Ensure platform stability, monitoring, and performance
• Support deployments, release cycles, and environment setup
• Work closely with engineering teams to enable delivery and best practice

Skills and Experience

• 3-7 years' experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering
• Strong hands on experience with AWS
• Experience with Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
• Solid experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to Kubernetes / container platforms
• Experience working in enterprise or regulated environments preferred
• Experience working in the finance/banking sector

Technical Environment

• AWS (core infrastructure + networking fundamentals)
• Terraform (IaC)
• Kubernetes / EKS
• Docker / containerisation
• CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab or similar)