DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer Contract length - 6 month FTC Start date - ASAP (must be within a 2 week notice) Location - mostly remote in England. Berkshire office day 1 to collect equipment The client is a fast growing SaaS business. As a DevOps Engineer you will focus on using Kubernetes and AWS to accelerate and unblock the delivery of a K8s environments hosted in AWS. You will work with internal teams to design, build and stabilise secure, repeatable development, testing and production environments. The role is delivery-focused - resolve technical blockers, establish robust infrastructure and deployment patterns, transfer knowledge and leave clear documentation and operational ownership at the end of the engagement. DevOps Engineer - Responsibilities Assess the current Kubernetes platform, AWS architecture, delivery plans, and design 6 month delivery plan with clear priorities. Design, build and configure secure, reliable, and scalable Kubernetes environments in AWS Diagnose and resolve issues across clusters, containers, AWS services, storage, and deployment pipelines Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation as well as security, scalability, and monitoring best practice Produce concise architecture, configuration, and support documentation and provide practice knowledge to the team DevOps Engineer - Requirements Experience designing, building and operating production grade Kubernetes platforms within time-constrained programs (CI/CD) Kubernetes cluster architecture AWS experience supporting containerised workloads Experience establishing separate development, testing and production environments with controlled configuration and release promotion Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation using Terraform and Ansible Linux administration Experience documenting platform designs and transferring knowledge to an internal engineering team Strong problem solver Excellent written and verbal communication skills For more information, please contact Katie at Matched Group.