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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