Senior DevOps AWS Engineer

Darwin Recruitment is in the automotive marketplace and online auctions industry, seeking a Senior DevOps AWS Engineer. The role focuses on supporting the infrastructure for a large-scale online auction marketplace, improving automation, scaling cloud infrastructure, and aiding in the migration to a fully AWS-based environment.

Responsibilities:

• Support the infrastructure behind a large-scale online auction marketplace
• Focus on improving automation, scaling cloud infrastructure, and supporting a migration toward a fully AWS-based environment
• Work closely with engineering teams to build tools that streamline development workflows, strengthen system reliability, and modernize a high-traffic WordPress platform and supporting backend services

Requirements:

• 8+ years supporting scalable, high-traffic web platforms
• Strong experience building and operating infrastructure in AWS
• Extensive knowledge of serverless services such as Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB and Cognito
• Hands-on experience with AWS CDK and infrastructure as code practices
• Strong scripting ability (Linux/Unix shell, Python, Ruby or similar)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native tools or platforms like GitHub Actions
• Solid understanding of Git-based development workflows
• Experience with configuration management and automated deployment processes
• Knowledge of SDLC processes and development lifecycle best practices
• Experience designing and managing AWS multi-account environments
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch or X-Ray
• Experience hosting and supporting WordPress at scale
• Understanding of MySQL and/or Elasticsearch
• Ability to estimate and manage AWS infrastructure costs