DevOps Engineer
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Role Overview
Title: Senior / Lead AWS DevOps Contractor
Contract Length: 3 Months – Immediate Start - Outside IR35
Location: Remote (UK)
Description:
We’re looking for a highly experienced Senior / Lead DevOps Contractor to operate at a senior level, driving architectural decisions, leading delivery, and ensuring secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure across the environment.
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Lead to manage a critical cloud migration project, moving a mature platform from AWS to Hetzner to achieve significant cost reduction. This short-term, high-priority role will oversee the migration, maintain operational stability, and lead a small DevOps team.
The platform currently runs on AWS with ECS, k3s Kubernetes, Redpanda streaming, and databases including Cassandra, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Observability is mostly implemented with Grafana
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the migration of infrastructure from AWS to Hetzner, ensuring minimal disruption and cost optimisation.
- Oversee day-to-day platform operations during and after migration.
- Champion DevOps best practices including automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
- Drive improvements in reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Mentor and manage 2 DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance and leadership.
- Collaborate with development, product, and operations teams to align migration and DevOps strategy with business goals.
Skills & Experience Required
- Extensive experience in DevOps or platform engineering, ideally in senior or lead roles.
- Strong expertise with AWS and experience migrating workloads to alternative cloud providers like Hetzner
Additional Information
- Focus on AWS-to-Hetzner migration, operational stability, and cost optimisation.
- Role has direct financial impact on cloud spending and platform efficiency.