DevOps Engineer
3 days ago
Oldbury
Major Recruitment Oldbury are delighted to be recruiting for our international client who are seeking a DevOps Engineer to start immediately to work on a 2-4 month contract. The role is fully remote and is £500-550 per day. Duties and tasks will include: • Own the AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure for the product., • Design and implement production-ready deployment architecture for backend, frontend, PostgreSQL, Redis, and object storage., • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for safe deployments, rollbacks, and environment promotion., • Set up and manage secrets, environment configuration, certificates, DNS, and access controls., • Define and maintain production-safe migration, backup, restore, and rollback procedures., • Implement monitoring, alerting, health checks, logging, and operational dashboards., • Improve security at the infrastructure and edge layers, including WAF, rate limiting, origin protection, and internal access controls., • Design and manage traffic routing and availability using load balancers and related ingress components., • Work closely with the full-stack engineer to make the application stable, deployable, and production-ready., • Create clear runbooks for deployments, incidents, recovery, and day-to-day operations., • Help shape scaling, resilience, and reliability strategy as usage grows. Duties and tasks will include: • Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering., • Strong hands-on experience with AWS., • Strong hands-on experience with Docker and container-based deployments., • Experience designing and operating infrastructure for production web applications., • Experience with AWS ECS/Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache/Redis, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, ALB, and Secrets Manager., • Experience with Cloudflare, especially DNS, WAF, rate limiting, and edge security., • Strong experience with load balancers, ingress, routing, and production traffic management., • Strong understanding of Linux, networking, reverse proxies, SSL/TLS, and infrastructure security., • Strong security mindset with the ability to design and operate systems with secure-by-default principles., • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines., • Experience with database migrations, backup/restore, and rollback planning., • Experience setting up logging, monitoring, health checks, and alerting for production systems., • Ability to work independently, take ownership, and make practical infrastructure decisions., • Good communication skills and ability to collaborate closely with an application engineer., • Comfortable working in a spec-driven and AI-assisted workflow, including familiarity with tools such as Codex, Claude Code, or similar engineering assistants.