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Scot Lewis Associates

Senior Software Engineer/Cloud DevOps Engineer AWS

On site

Sheffield or birmingham or edinburgh, United kingdom

Senior

Freelance

18-10-2025

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Skills

Communication Python SQL NoSQL Encryption Splunk GitLab CI/CD DevOps Docker Kubernetes Monitoring Version Control Jenkins Ansible Change Management Networking Architecture Linux Programming Databases AWS Software Development cloud platforms Agile GCP CI/CD Pipelines Gitlab CI Terraform Prometheus Grafana Infrastructure as Code Microservices

Job Specifications

Software engineer, DevOps, Python, GoLang, Docker, Cloud-Native, Liquidbase, CI/CD, Storage, Linux, SQL, API's, Monitoring (Elk/Splunk/Prometheus/Grafana) Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Infra as code.
Working with leading financial client to secure services of a Senior Software Engineer to support development of services hosted on Public Cloud platforms. You will leverage your expertise in Software Development, along with your DevOps proficiency acrossAWS, to design and implement resilient Front End client, Back End services, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native solutions. This is an opportunity to work on high-impact systems within a secure, high-availability environment at one of the world's leading financial institutions.
Key Accountabilities
Responsibilities will include:
Design, develop and maintain highly available, secure, and performant Back End REST API services along with Front End client using Python, Golang, DockerandCloud-Native services.
Implement and manage database schema changes using Liquibase, ensuring alignment with compliance and audit standards.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, with a focus on traceability and regulatory controls.
Manage, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure acrossAWS, ensuring resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security.
Collaborate closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements.
Support live systems, perform root cause analysis, and implement solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks.
Qualifications and experience
The ideal candidate for this role will have the below experience and qualifications:
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
Comes from Software Engineering background with infrastructure experience.
5+ years of development experience with a strong focus on large-scale, distributed systems.
Proficient in GolangandPython.
Experience with Liquibase or similar tools for database change management and version control.
Hands-on experience withAWS, including cloud-native services, networking, IAM, and cost optimization.
Experience with other cloud providers such as GCP is desirable.
Proven experience with DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (eg, Terraform), CI/CD tools (eg, Jenkins, GitLab CI), and containerization.
Strong understanding of security principles in cloud and enterprise systems.
Familiarity with audit and compliance considerations in regulated industries, particularly finance or banking.
Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences.
A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, using appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success.
Essential Skills
Demonstrable experience of:
Public Cloud.
Infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including Compute, Storage, Networking.
Linux.
Relational and NoSQL databases.
Integration services such as messaging and streams.
Building RESTful API Services.
Containerisation, Kubernetes, serverless functions.
Microservices, and distributed tracing.
Enterprise logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (eg, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
Automation Scripting (using Scripting languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.).
Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools.
Experience working within an Agile environment.
Programming experience in following languages: Golang & Python.
Good understanding of cryptography (authentication, data encryption).
Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.
Good non-functional testing experience.
Desirable Skills
Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments.
AWS certifications (eg, AWS Certified Developer/AWS Certified DevOps Engineer).

About the Company

Scot Lewis Associates is a specialist recruitment firm focused on the sourcing and retainment of Technology, Business Transformation and Sales professionals across various industries. We have over 100 years of recruitment experience in the team. We are unique in that our leadership team is a blend of both Technology and Transformation leaders who have had successful careers directing significant transformation initiatives, as well as Recruitment industry leaders with decades of experience within their markets. Building ... Know more