DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh - Lorien

6 month contract - Inside IR35 - Banking

Senior AWS Infrastructure DevOps Engineer (Hands-On Role)

Take a hands-on lead role in designing, implementing, and optimising secure, scalable AWS infrastructure to support cloud-native applications. Champion DevOps best practices, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate across functions to drive automation, reliability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and manage AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Lead the hands-on development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and ArgoCD.
• Design and operate containerised workloads with EKS, Fargate, and Kubernetes.
• Manage Kubernetes deployments using Helm charts.
• Implement observability solutions using OpenTelemetry (OTel), Grafana, and Splunk.
• Optimise infrastructure with Karpenter for autoscaling and cost efficiency.
• Ensure robust AWS networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Route 53) and enforce security best practices.
• Drive incident response, monitoring, and performance tuning.

Key Technologies: AWS (EKS, Fargate, EC2, S3), Terraform, CloudFormation, GitLab, ArgoCD, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Cassandra, OTel, Grafana, Splunk, Karpenter, Python, Bash.

Desirable: Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Apigee Hybrid, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.