Senior DevOps Engineer at enigmaticsmile

Compensation

£68,000/yr

Setup: Remote - UK
Type: Full-time
Level: Senior
Posted: May 28, 2026

Description

The Senior DevOps Engineer will join a security-focused fintech startup to scale and refine their AWS infrastructure. This role involves managing AWS platforms, optimizing services like ECS, EC2, Lambda, and CloudWatch, and implementing CI/CD pipelines. The engineer will also develop observability frameworks, enforce identity and access control, and ensure compliance with various regulations such as PCI DSS and ISO27001.

Required Skills

Terraform
CI/CD pipelines
observability frameworks
identity and access controls
cost optimisation
infrastructure automation
documentation
best practices

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Strong experience as a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer in AWS environments
Deep hands-on expertise with AWS services (ECS, EC2, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, etc.)
Proven experience with Terraform, including building reusable modules
Solid understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework and cloud best practices
Experience designing and operating multi-region architectures
Strong CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, CodeDeploy or similar)
Experience with identity and access management, including SSO
Strong Linux and containerisation knowledge (Docker, ECS)
Experience building and maintaining observability and monitoring systems
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with security tooling integrations (SIEM, DLP, etc.)
Experience working in regulated environments (PCI DSS, ISO 27001, etc.)
Experience with Terraform automation tooling (e.g. Terraform Cloud, Atlantis)
Familiarity with Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) or self-service infrastructure models
Experience with Cloudflare WAF or similar edge security tooling
Exposure to Kubernetes (EKS or Other)
Exposure to Kafka
Familiarity with MongoDB
Scripting or programming experience (any language; Rust a bonus)