London | Hybrid
Initial 6-Month Contract | £600–£700 per day | Outside IR35
Sure Exec Search is working with a leading commercial insurance business in London to appoint an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer on an initial six-month contract.
The role sits within a growing technology function and will play a key part in improving cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, platform reliability and engineering standards across the organisation.
We’re looking for a hands-on engineer who can operate independently, make strong technical decisions and deliver improvements across a modern AWS environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain scalable and secure AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Build, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
- Support and manage containerised applications across Docker and Kubernetes/EKS environments.
- Automate infrastructure and operational processes using scripting and modern DevOps tooling.
- Improve cloud platform reliability, resilience, performance and scalability.
- Monitor production environments and support incident response and troubleshooting.
- Implement appropriate cloud security, access controls and governance.
- Work closely with Software Engineers, Architects and wider technology teams.
- Establish and improve DevOps standards, tooling and engineering practices.
- Support cloud migration and modernisation initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes through automation.
- Produce clear technical documentation and contribute to knowledge transfer.
- Support continuous improvement across the wider engineering environment.
Technical Experience
We’re looking for strong hands-on experience across:
- AWS – EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS and related services.
- Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
- Kubernetes / Amazon EKS.
- Docker and containerisation.
- CI/CD – GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins or similar.
- Linux administration and troubleshooting.
- Python, Bash or similar scripting languages.
- Git and modern source-control practices.
- Cloud monitoring, logging and observability.
- Cloud security and IAM.