AWS DevOps Engineer (DRWN)

Senior DevOps Engineer (DRWN)

Job title – Senior DevOps Engineer

Client Location – Remote

Remote work offering – 100%

Client Industry – Consumer technology / online marketplace

Contract Length – 12 months

Contract type – Freelance / Contract

Project focus

Join a growing engineering team supporting a high-traffic consumer web platform as it migrates its infrastructure to AWS. You’ll help modernise and harden the systems that deliver the platform to customers, build internal tooling that speeds up how engineers ship code (including tooling that brings AI agents into the development and operations workflow), and support a WordPress-based site at scale.

Key skills and Experience required

8+ years deploying and supporting high-traffic, scalable web applications and services

5+ years working in an AWS serverless environment (Cognito, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB)

Strong TypeScript skills and hands‑on experience with the AWS CDK

Proficient scripting ability (Linux/Unix shell, Python, Ruby, or similar)

Hands‑on experience with configuration management and deployment tooling

Strong CI/CD expertise across native AWS services and third‑party tools, including building pipelines and Git competency

Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)

Experience defining multi‑account AWS strategies using Amazon Organizations

Experience integrating SCM, code quality, code coverage, and testing tools into CI/CD pipelines

Exposure to application and infrastructure monitoring tooling

Comfortable forecasting AWS billing using the pricing calculator

Practical experience working with AI coding agents and agentic engineering workflows as part of a modern delivery pipeline

Familiarity with Spec Driven Development for implementation, testing, and AI agent behaviour

Hands‑on experience with AWS services including Serverless, CDK, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, GitHub/GitHub Actions, Lambda/Step Functions, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, EventBridge, X‑Ray, CloudWatch, WAF, and Lake Formation

Experience with MySQL and Elasticsearch

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect a plus

Experience in a consumer‑focused technology company a plus

Domain knowledge in automotive, two‑sided marketplaces, or e‑commerce a plus

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