AWS DevOps Engineer, contract, West London at Staffworx Limited, Staines, 3 Months, £Contract Rate

AWS DevOps Engineer with strong SRE skills to join a busy BAU operations team. You'll be responsible for keeping mission-critical platforms stable, secure, and performant while continually improving automation, observability, and reliability.

This is a hands-on contract role working across AWS, containers, IaC and CI/CD tooling. Ideal for someone who enjoys owning environments end-to-end and thrives in a fast-paced, production-focused setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and enhance AWS-based production platforms in a BAU/SRE capacity

• Operate and optimize containerised workloads using AWS ECS and Kubernetes (K8)

• Design, maintain and improve Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

• Implement and maintain configuration management via Ansible and Puppet

• Build, maintain and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines (GitHub-based workflows)

• Own and improve monitoring, logging and alerting using Grafana (and related tools such as Prometheus/CloudWatch)

• Define, track and improve SLIs/SLOs and error budgets to drive reliability

• Participate in incident management, root cause analysis and post-incident reviews

• Contribute to security, backup, DR and cost-optimisation best practices on AWS

• Work closely with developers, QA and other stakeholders to ensure smooth releases and stable environments

Key Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Strong, recent experience as a DevOps Engineer/SRE in production AWS environments

• Hands-on experience with:

  • AWS ECS

  • Terraform for Infrastructure as Code

  • Ansible and/or Puppet for configuration management

  • Grafana for dashboards and observability (Prometheus, Loki, CloudWatch etc. a plus)

  • GitHub (Actions or other CI/CD tooling built around GitHub)

• Solid knowledge of Linux systems, networking and security fundamentals

• Experience running and supporting 24/7 production systems (on-call or out-of-hours incident support a plus)

• Strong understanding of SRE principles - SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, capacity planning

• Good Scripting skills (eg Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and tooling

Nice to Have:

• Exposure to GitOps approaches (eg ArgoCD, Flux)

• Kubernetes, EKS

• Familiarity with AWS security best practices and compliance frameworks

• Experience in high-availability, high-traffic environments

Contract Details

• Length: 3-month initial contract, likely contract until at least end 2026

• Extensions: Strong possibility of long-term extensions based on performance and project needs

• Rate: Market rates, outside IR35

• Engagement: Outside IR35, 2 days week ideally on site, West London

How to Apply

If you're an AWS DevOps Engineer/SRE with solid experience across AWS ECS, K8s, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Grafana and GitHub, and you're keen on a BAU-focused contract role with long-term potential, please send your:

• CV/Resume

• Short note outlining relevant experience and availability

• Desired day rate (outside IR35)