via Reed · 17 September 2026 ·3 days ago

Senior DevOps Engineer

Candour Solutions
Greater Manchester Full-time GBP 55,000 – 65,000
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Role: Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary: £50,000-£70,000
Work Pattern: Remote First - UK Based & occasional days in the Manchester office.

Benefits:

  • Performance Bonus

  • Fully Remote Working

  • Flexible Working Hours

  • Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave

  • Career Development

  • Collaborative Culture

This client is looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join their growing engineering team. This is a hands-on role focused on supporting and evolving a large-scale AWS environment while driving Infrastructure as Code, automation and DevOps best practices.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

  • Manage and enhance a complex AWS cloud environment, ensuring the reliability, performance and scalability of core platform infrastructure.

  • Design and deliver new cloud solutions and infrastructure enhancements to support continued business growth and increasing customer demand.

Key Requirements:
  • 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Cloud or Platform Engineering role.

  • Strong hands-on experience designing and supporting AWS environments at scale.

  • Expertise with Terraform and IaC.

  • Strong Linux administration and Bash/Shell scripting skills.

  • Strong understanding of Git and CI/CD principles.

  • Experience optimising cloud infrastructure for performance, resilience and cost efficiency.

Key Skills:
  • AWS (ECS, Auto Scaling Groups, ALB, CloudFront, Lambda, RDS Aurora, ElastiCache, Redshift, S3, MSK, Control Tower)

  • Terraform & Infrastructure as Code

  • Linux (Ubuntu)

  • Bash/Shell scripting

  • Docker

  • PHP 7/8

  • SQL, MySQL & PostgreSQL

  • ETL and data integration

  • Git & CI/CD

If you are interested, please apply now!

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