DevOps Engineer

About this job

Role: DevOps Engineer
Location: Crewe (Hybrid - 3 days onsite per week)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time

A fantastic opportunity has become available for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a growing technology team building a feature-rich platform supporting the fast-moving Electric Vehicle (EV) sector.

This is a hands-on role working within a collaborative, high-performing environment, where you'll be responsible for improving deployment automation, scaling infrastructure, enhancing reliability, and driving best practices across modern DevOps tooling and processes.

The team is working at pace on a platform with rapidly evolving requirements, offering excellent scope for innovation, ownership, and technical progression.

The Role

As a DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Build and maintain deployment automation across a large application portfolio

• Deliver infrastructure provisioning and scaling using IaC (Cloud Development Kit or Terraform)

• Support application configuration, optimisation, and migration into high-availability setups

• Manage database deployments and contribute to performance planning

• Carry out load testing, capacity planning, and performance monitoring

• Investigate incidents, resolve issues, and improve system reliability

• Work closely with developers using modern CI/CD workflows and container orchestration

This role reports into the Development Manager and can be office-based or hybrid (3 days per week onsite in Crewe).

Key Skills & Experience

Essential

• Strong AWS experience - EC2, EKS, RDS, Aurora, networking, and cost optimisation

• Confident with building & deploying C# / .NET applications

• Experience with NuGet package management in CI/CD

• Infrastructure as Code experience using CDK or Terraform

• CI/CD experience with AWS CodePipeline or GitLab CI/CD

• Solid Linux administration skills

• Docker and Kubernetes experience

• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP

• Knowledge of security best practice for web application deployments

• Experience with monitoring & logging tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana)

• Web application firewall experience (AWS WAF, Cloudflare)

Desirable

• PostgreSQL and MSSQL administration

• Azure cloud services

• KongHQ / AWS API Gateway

• Azure DevOps

• CloudFront and other CDNs

• SSL certificate management, configuration hardening, domain setup

• Performance tuning and load testing

• Experience with pipeline-based mobile app builds / remote Mac builders

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package

• Pension & life assurance

• Employee fuel card scheme

• Electric vehicle scheme

• Employee assistance programme

• Wellness and healthcare services

• Cycle to work scheme

• Free breakfast onsite

• Modern purpose-built office with gym, café and bar

If you're an experienced DevOps Engineer looking to make a real impact on scalable, cloud-driven platforms in the EV and sustainability space, click apply now.