DevOps Engineer (AWS)

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Platform / Site Reliability Engineer to support and enhance hybrid AWS cloud environments, preferably within PCI-DSS compliant financial services environments. The successful candidate will play a key role in infrastructure automation, CI/CD implementation, observability, reliability engineering, and platform engineering practices across the organisation.

• *What you'll do:
• Design, implement, and support hybrid AWS cloud environments, ensuring compliance with PCI-DSS standards where applicable
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipeline automation across functional domains
• Automate AWS workload provisioning including infrastructure and custom software configuration rollout
• Implement and enhance observability solutions for hybrid cloud environments
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of low-latency and Java-based applications in an SRE context
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, and application issues across cloud and hybrid platforms
• Apply platform engineering principles to improve developer experience and operational efficiency
• Implement AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to ensure resilient and secure deployments
• *Your expertise:
• Hands-on experience in hybrid AWS cloud environments
• Experience in PCI-DSS compliant systems (preferably within the financial sector)
• Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols
• Experience implementing CI/CD automation pipelines
• Experience with workload automation and infrastructure provisioning
• Experience implementing observability in cloud and hybrid environments
• Experience troubleshooting low-latency and Java-based applications
• Practical application of Platform Engineering principles
• Strong understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework
• *Technology and Tooling:
• *Essential:
• AWS Services:
• EC2, RDS (Postgres & Oracle EE), EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog
• AWS CDK
• Observability tooling: AWS CloudWatch, Splunk / AppDynamics, ELK
• CI/CD platforms (e.g., Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab or equivalent)
• Operating Systems: Linux and Windows Server
• *Preferred:
• Python scripting
• AWS CloudFormation
• Ansible
• Bash scripting
• *Optional:
• Zabbix monitoring
• Keycloak
• ActiveMQ
• WebLogic 14c
• Nginx
• *Certifications: (Beneficial)**
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (CloudOps Engineer)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate