DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Contractlength - 6 month FTC

Startdate - ASAP (must be within a 2 week notice)

Location - mostly remote in England. Berkshire office day 1 to collect equipment

The client is a fast growing SaaS business. As a DevOps Engineer you will focus on using Kubernetes and AWS to accelerate and unblock the delivery of a K8s environments hosted in AWS. You will work with internal teams to design, build and stabilise secure, repeatable development, testing and production environments. The role is delivery-focused - resolve technical blockers, establish robust infrastructure and deployment patterns, transfer knowledge and leave clear documentation and operational ownership at the end of the engagement.

DevOps Engineer - Responsibilities

Assess the current Kubernetes platform, AWS architecture, delivery plans, and design 6 month delivery plan with clear priorities.

Design, build and configure secure, reliable, and scalable Kubernetes environments in AWS

Diagnose and resolve issues across clusters, containers, AWS services, storage, and deployment pipelines

Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation as well as security, scalability, and monitoring best practice

Produce concise architecture, configuration, and support documentation and provide practice knowledge to the team

DevOps Engineer - Requirements

Experience designing, building and operating production grade Kubernetes platforms within time-constrained programs (CI/CD)

Kubernetes cluster architecture

AWS experience supporting containerised workloads

Experience establishing separate development, testing and production environments with controlled configuration and release promotion

Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation using Terraform and Ansible

Linux administration

Experience documenting platform designs and transferring knowledge to an internal engineering team

Strong problem solver

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

For more information, please contact Katie at Matched Group.