AWS DevOps Engineer (contract)

We are seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer for a customer-facing consulting role. Our mission is to help organisations scale their use of AWS Cloud and adopt DevOps practices to achieve their business objectives and respond effectively to change.

• Your day-to-day role
• Assist with DevOps adoption, both in spirit and through automation
• Assist with adoption of infrastructure as code: Terraform and pipelines, with Cloudformation/CDK experience a plus
• Collaborate with customer stakeholders at engineering, operations and management level
• Provide operational support and cloud engineering during business hours - handling common changes across compute, storage, networking and identity and driving proactive improvements such as cost optimisation, security posture remediation and configuration consistency, within established change-management processes
• Your skills
• You have a strong AWS Cloud background, including EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda etc.
• You hold current associate or ideally professional AWS certifications
• You have a DevOps mindset and you are comfortable challenging the status quo
• You have experience being customer-facing
• You have a positive and friendly mindset and attitude
• You are a team player that proactively shares knowledge and provides feedback
• You are fluent in both spoken and written English
• You can take ideas from concept to implementation and you are an Engineer at heart
• You have some architecture experience
• You enjoy exploring new services and technologies
• High proficiency with Claude Code and with AI generally, paired with the discipline to critically validate and review AI-generated output - you treat it as a capable assistant - not an oracle - and you own the correctness
• A strong track record with AWS implementation and deployment automation
• A good understanding of modern software development practices, CI/CD & testing
• Experience of working in and evangelising Agile practices
• Experience with AWS Code
• Pipeline, Code
• Build and Code
• Commit a plus
• Comprehensive experience with Terraform, Python & Bash
• Cloudformation and CDK a plus
• Working knowledge of Windows and/or Elastic Beanstalk an advantage
• Comfortable working independently within an operational environment
• A good understanding and experience of AWS Organizations and Control Tower a plus
• Schedule
• The role is on a contract basis, initially for 6 months with scope for renewal.
• The contract is ordinarily 5 days per week and work is carried out within customer business hours (Europe).

LocationThe role is 100% remote. You must hold a European Union passport and you and your company must reside in the EU.RateEur. 450,- to 525,- per day depending on experience.