Senior DevOps Engineer

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We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our Windows-based infrastructure running in AWS. This role is focused on operational excellence, security, automation, and developer enablement.

You’ll work closely with product engineering teams to ensure systems are secure, reliable, and easy to deploy, while driving improvements in CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure automation.

Manage and operate Windows Server environments in AWS (EC2), ensuring high availability and performance

Own patching, vulnerability management, and system hardening processes across Windows workloads

Monitor and respond to security events, working closely with security teams to remediate risks

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support consistent, reliable application deployments

Implement and improve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or similar tools

Develop automation using PowerShell and scripting to reduce manual operational overhead

Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure system health

Partner with product engineering teams to troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues

Support releases and ensure smooth deployment processes across environments

Participate in on-call rotations and act as an escalation point for production incidents

Lead or contribute to incident response and post-mortems, driving long-term improvements

AWS (Primary)

EC2 (Windows workloads), VPC, IAM

S3, EBS, Systems Manager (SSM)

CloudWatch (or integration with tools like Datadog)

Load Balancers (ALB/NLB)

Infrastructure & Automation

Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation

CI/CD: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar

Microsoft / Windows

Windows Server administration

MS SQL Server (standalone and AWS RDS)

Active Directory / identity integration

IIS and .NET application hosting

PowerShell scripting and automation

Observability & Operations

Monitoring and alerting platforms (Datadog, CloudWatch, etc.)

Logging and incident response tooling

Extensive experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Systems Engineering

Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments

Proven experience managing Windows Server infrastructure (preferably in AWS)

Experience with patching, vulnerability remediation, and security event handling

Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform strongly preferred)

Strong scripting skills in PowerShell

Experience with monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting production systems

Ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams and support production workloads

Experience with Active Directory integration in AWS (Managed AD, AD Connector)

Familiarity with Sitecore CMS, other .NET applications and IIS in production

Experience with AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for patching and automation

Exposure to containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)

Experience with Datadog or OpenTelemetry-based observability

Understanding of FinOps and cloud cost optimisation

You prioritise automation, reliability, and repeatability in everything you build

You take ownership of systems and drive issues through resolution

You’re comfortable working in production environments and handling incidents

You collaborate effectively with engineering and security teams

You continuously look for ways to reduce toil and improve system stability

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