AWS Cloud Operations Engineer

£50,000 \+ discretionary company bonus scheme (dependent on meeting business targets)

The role

Britbet operates pool betting at 59 British racecourses and 11 greyhound tracks,running on a production AWS estate that directly supports live betting:racing 362 days a year. We're bringing the management of that estate in\-house from a managed service provider \— and this role is the centre of that move.

You'll be our AWS platform lead: the person who owns the day\-to\-day running of a business\-critical production environment end\-to\-end. You'll join a small,capable team (network/infrastructure engineer,service desk,a hands\-on Head of IT) with a further senior hire planned for 2027,and you'll help shape the runbooks, automation and tooling of the new operating model.

What you'll do

• Own platform operations across our AWS accounts:patching via SSM,backup configuration and verification,IAM,security remediation (Security Hub/GuardDuty),and CloudWatch monitoring.


• Run our RDS (MariaDB) estate:parameter and version management,backup/restore,and the instance scaling cycle around major race meetings (Cheltenham,the Grand National).


• Take ownership of our Terraform codebase and configuration management as we repatriate it from the outgoing provider, plus extend automation where it saves us time.


• Drive cost optimisation as an active workstream: rightsizing,reserved instance/savings plan strategy, anomaly investigation.


• Share out\-of\-hours cover on a paid rota with a first\-response tier and runbooks filtering the noise before it reaches you.

Work alongside our network engineer on a major 2027 project:standing up a second data\-centre hub with certificate\-based VPN from 60\+ venues and a new Direct Connect into AWS,then decommissioning the 66 AWS site\-to\-site VPNs.

What we're looking for

Must have:

• Relevant years running production AWS estates (operations,not just project builds).


• Solid EC2/Linux administration and patching workflows (SSM or equivalent).


• Real relational database operations experience \— RDS preferred (we run MariaDB,but strong MySQL/PostgreSQL ops translates).


• CloudWatch beyond the basics:alarms,log groups,agent configuration.


• Confident IAM:roles,policies,least\-privilege thinking.


• Terraform at 'maintain and extend an existing codebase' level.


• Comfortable committing to a paid on\-call rota.

Nice to have:

• MSP background.


• Site\-to\-site VPN / networking exposure.


• Scripting (Python or Bash) for automation.


• AI Experience for tooling and automation.


• AWS SysOps Administrator or DevOps Engineer certification (we'll fund it if not).


• Experience in a regulated industry.


• Service Desk – Confluence,Jira

What you'll get:

• £50,000 base,10% discretionary bonus scheme, and a separately paid on\-call allowance.


• Pension and private health insurance.


• Certification funding and study time (AWS certs actively supported).


• Hybrid working with a genuine reason to be on\-site \- race days are the most interesting days in this job.


• A clear development path


• 25 days’ holiday per annum plus Bank Holidays

Work Location: In person

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