Senior AWS DevOps Engineer Remote, Full-Time AS232 - Smart Working

About Smart Working At Smart Working , we believe your job should not only look right on paper but also feel right every day. This isn’t just another remote opportunity - it’s about finding where you truly belong, no matter where you are. From day one, you’re welcomed into a genuine community that values your growth and well-being. Our mission is simple: to break down geographic barriers and connect skilled professionals with outstanding global teams and products for full-time, long-term roles. We help you discover meaningful work with teams that invest in your success, where you’re empowered to grow personally and professionally. Join one of the highest-rated workplaces on Glassdoor and experience what it means to thrive in a truly remote-first world. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to join a small, high-impact platform team responsible for building and scaling a cloud-native infrastructure on AWS.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll contribute to both the design and implementation of infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform tooling. You’ll work closely with engineering teams to improve system reliability, scalability, and developer experience, while helping evolve a modern, production-grade platform.

You’ll be expected to operate with a high level of ownership, contributing across the full lifecycle, from architecture decisions to hands-on delivery and operational support.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure, improving scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency across environments
• Develop and manage Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, ensuring modular, reusable, and consistent deployments
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred) across application, data, and infrastructure layers
• Build and maintain Kubernetes (EKS) workloads, including deployments, scaling, and production troubleshooting
• Work across a wide range of AWS services, including compute (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda), networking (VPCs, subnets, security groups), and event-driven systems (API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Step Functions)
• Manage and optimise data services such as RDS (PostgreSQL) and ClickHouse
• Automate infrastructure and environment setup using tools such as Packer and Ansible for AMI creation and configuration
• Implement and improve observability using CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, and centralized logging tools (e.g. Splunk, Datadog, ELK)
• Collaborate with developers and data engineers to improve deployment workflows, system reliability, and platform usability
• Apply security best practices across infrastructure, including IAM, KMS, and Secrets Manager
• Support incident response, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of production systems

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or SRE roles