Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Salary: Up to £75,000

Location: Manchester City Centre

Maxwell Bond have partnered with a fast-growing technology business who are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join their Manchester based team.

This is a pivotal role working closely with senior technical leaders and the wider engineering team. You'll take ownership of the AWS infrastructure supporting a growing technology platform, ensuring systems are secure, scalable, reliable and cost-efficient as the business continues to grow.

What you'll do as Senior DevOps Engineer:

• Own and evolve the AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environments, managing ECS/Fargate, EC2, VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM and AWS WAF.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex infrastructure and production issues, troubleshooting across containers, networking, databases, and more, identifying root causes and improving platform reliability.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting and incident response processes, introducing proactive observability, operational runbooks and stronger disaster recovery procedures.
• Drive infrastructure automation through Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD, reducing manual changes and improving deployment consistency, rollback processes and operational maturity.

What's in it for you:

• Salary up to £75,000.
• Opportunity to take full ownership of the AWS infrastructure and make key architectural decisions across a growing technology platform.
• A hands-on senior role where you can influence reliability, security, scalability and cost efficiency across a complex production environment.
• The chance to join a growing business investing heavily in its technology and infrastructure.

What They're Looking For:

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE or Cloud Infrastructure, with strong hands‑on experience running production AWS workloads under significant load.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD, using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Bitbucket Pipelines or GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of database performance, caching, asynchronous workloads and production incident response, with the ability to troubleshoot across infrastructure, application and data layers.