Remote Cloud Platform Engineer: DevOps & AWS

Arden University Ltd; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading university in Coventry is seeking a DevOps professional to implement practices that enhance system stability and scalability. This role primarily supports remote work, making it flexible for team members. Responsibilities include using IaC tools, improving security and automation, and enhancing existing infrastructures. If you are passionate about cloud technologies and continuous improvement, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Generous pension plan with company contributions

Private Medical Insurance

Study Arden courses for free

Access to Perkbox benefits

Responsibilities

• Contribute to implementing DevOps practices, toolchains and methodologies aligned with the company’s IT vision.
• Enhance stability, security and scalability of systems through automation and continuous improvement.
• Work with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools to provision and manage environments.

Skills

Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS-CDK

Database management with MySQL/SQL

Bash, Python, or TypeScript scripting

Monitoring and observability with Grafana/Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, New Relic

Version control with Git

Security practices including firewalls, ACLs, antivirus tools, encryption protocols, IAM

DevOps environment experience with CI/CD pipelines and IaC

AWS services (EC2, EKS, VPC, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, API Gateway, SNS/SQS)

Containerisation with Docker and Kubernetes

Linux system deployment and maintenance

Designing scalable cloud architectures for high-traffic and large-scale data storage

Troubleshooting complex cloud infrastructure issues

Job description

A leading university in Coventry is seeking a DevOps professional to implement practices that enhance system stability and scalability. This role primarily supports remote work, making it flexible for team members. Responsibilities include using IaC tools, improving security and automation, and enhancing existing infrastructures. If you are passionate about cloud technologies and continuous improvement, this opportunity is perfect for you.