AWS DevOps Engineer – 9-Month Contract Location: Hybrid London
Duration: 9 Months (initial)
Start Date: ASAP

The Opportunity We’re supporting a leading global payments organisation on a high-profile initiative, and they’re building out a brand-new DevOps team. As the first hire into this team, you’ll play a key role in shaping the cloud infrastructure and automation strategy from the ground up.

This is an exciting chance to work within a highly regulated, enterprise-scale environment where security, scalability, and reliability are critical.

Industry Experience – A Must Have Due to the nature of the end customer, it is essential that you have experience within one of the following sectors:

• Payments / Banking / Financial Services
• FinTech
• Gambling / Gaming
• Or a similar mission-critical, large-scale infrastructure environment

This background is non-negotiable, as the environment requires engineers who understand the demands of secure, always-on platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• CI/CD: Design, build, and maintain pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Containers & Orchestration: Deploy and manage workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Automation & Scripting: Develop automation solutions with Python, Bash, or Go.
• Security & Compliance: Implement IAM policies, manage secrets (Secrets Manager, Vault), and ensure best practice.
• Monitoring & Logging: Configure and maintain monitoring/observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and AWS CloudTrail.
• Cost Optimisation: Monitor and optimise AWS resource usage to drive efficiency.

Core Skills & Tools

• Strong AWS experience (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch)
• Proficiency in Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• CI/CD with Git-based tools
• Containerisation with Docker & Kubernetes
• Scripting with Python / Bash
• Security-first mindset in regulated environments

What’s on Offer

• 9-month initial contract with potential extensions
• Opportunity to be the first hire in a new DevOps team for a global enterprise programme
• Exposure to cutting-edge AWS cloud projects in a highly regulated industry
• Competitive day rates, with two seniority levels under consideration (mid-level and senior)

If you’re an AWS DevOps Engineer with a background in payments, financial services, fintech, or similarly regulated environments, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now to discuss further.