DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer – Contract (2-4 months)

Major Recruitment Oldbury is delighted to recruit for an international client seeking a DevOps Engineer to start immediately on a 2-4 month contract. The role is fully remote and offers £500-550 per day.

Responsibilities

• Own the AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure for the product.
• Design and implement production‑ready deployment architecture for backend, frontend, PostgreSQL, Redis, and object storage.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for safe deployments, rollbacks, and environment promotion.
• Set up and manage secrets, environment configuration, certificates, DNS, and access controls.
• Define and maintain production‑safe migration, backup, restore, and rollback procedures.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, health checks, logging, and operational dashboards.
• Improve security at the infrastructure and edge layers, including WAF, rate limiting, origin protection, and internal access controls.
• Design and manage traffic routing and availability using load balancers and related ingress components.
• Work closely with the full‑stack engineer to make the application stable, deployable, and production‑ready.
• Create clear runbooks for deployments, incidents, recovery, and day‑to‑day operations.
• Help shape scaling, resilience, and reliability strategy as usage grows.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Docker and container‑based deployments.
• Experience designing and operating infrastructure for production web applications.
• Experience with AWS ECS/Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache/Redis, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, ALB, and Secrets Manager.
• Experience with Cloudflare, especially DNS, WAF, rate limiting, and edge security.
• Strong experience with load balancers, ingress, routing, and production traffic management.
• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, reverse proxies, SSL/TLS, and infrastructure security.
• Strong security mindset with the ability to design and operate systems with secure‑by‑default principles.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with database migrations, backup/restore, and rollback planning.
• Experience setting up logging, monitoring, health checks, and alerting for production systems.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership, and make practical infrastructure decisions.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate closely with an application engineer.
• Comfortable working in a spec‑driven and AI‑assisted workflow, including familiarity with tools such as Codex, Claude Code, or similar engineering assistants.

Note: This position is no longer open for applications.

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