Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

The Client is one of the majour insurance companies in the UK.

This role supports a high-priority risk reduction programme for the Green Flag MyCro Platform, a complex technology estate built on AWS. Platform SMEs have already designed remediation plans and started putting them into effect. The DevOps engineer we’re looking for will help speed up delivery across key areas: logging hygiene, network security for key data stores, VPC egress control, Cognito-based access management and a rebuild of the platform’s deployment pipelines.

Requirements

Strong hands-on AWS DevOps experience in large-scale production environments

AWS deployment tooling, including AWS CodeBuild

AWS CloudWatch Logs: retention and encryption policies

AWS networking: VPC, subnets, Security Groups, egress control

Amazon OpenSearch, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS

Experience with AWS Cognito and RBAC

Python knowledge would be extremely advantageous

Proven delivery of risk reduction initiatives

Experience making complex network changes with zero downtime

Able to work autonomously, manage stakeholders, and take ownership of a workstream

Good written and verbal English communication skills.

Job responsibilities

Quickly align with and carry out agreed remediation plans alongside platform SMEs

Drive measurable reduction of operational, security and delivery risk

Rebuild the platform’s deployment pipelines

Implement log retention and encryption policies in CloudWatch

Restrict subnet-level access to internal OpenSearch indexes

Reconfigure VPC and subnet setup to control Lambda and ECS egress, with zero downtime

Implement roles and access for the customer agent portal using AWS Cognito

Update a large number of APIs safely and on time

Work as part of an engineering squad

Take ownership of a workstream after SME handover and drive it to completion