Key skills
AWSCloudLinuxTerraformServerlessCloudFormationCI/CDLeadershipCommunicationCloud SecurityWAF
About this role
Role Overview
- Own and improve AWS infrastructure
- Work with containerised and serverless workloads
- Own cloud security posture including network segmentation, security group design, WAF implementation, and infrastructure hardening aligned to best practices (e.g. CIS benchmarks).
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines
- Improve deployment safety, consistency, rollback capability and release quality
- Establish best practices for build, test, deployment and environment promotion
- Establish and enforce security gates to prevent deployment of high-risk code or misconfigured infrastructure
- Own and operate a structured vulnerability management program, including scanning, prioritisation, remediation SLAs and reporting
- Define and enforce identity and access management standards, including role-based access control, least privilege, and automated provisioning and deprovisioning
- Support ISO 27001-aligned controls, audit readiness and technical compliance requirements
- Lead or support root cause analysis for incidents, outages and major performance issues
- Drive preventative improvements following production issues FMClarity
- Help engineering move from reactive firefighting to disciplined operational management
- Implement and manage centralised logging and security monitoring, with alerting aligned to security risks and incidents.
- Partner with software engineers on infrastructure, deployment and operational best practices
- Provide clear recommendations to engineering leadership on operational risk, priorities and trade-offs
Requirements
- Strong experience in a senior DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE or SecDevOps role
- Hands-on AWS experience
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code such as Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK
- Strong Linux and scripting skills
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools
- Good understanding of security fundamentals
- Confidence working in production and responding to incidents
- Clear communication skills and a collaborative approach
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
- Linux
- Terraform
Benefits
- Full-time permanent role with a flexible, hybrid work arrangement (2 days in office).
- Ongoing professional development and training opportunities.
- Career growth in a fast-evolving tech startup.
- Collaborative and supportive team environment.