Opus is supporting a data driven organisation entering a critical delivery phase, this opportunity is for a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer who thrives in hands on work and enjoys partnering closely with engineering teams building Node.js applications in high volume data environments.

The Role
You'll take full responsibility for AWS infrastructure and DevOps strategy, enabling and optimising Node based services that ingest, process, and transport large datasets. The emphasis is on automation, scalability, reliability, and empowering development teams to ship quickly and safely.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining AWS infrastructure using IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• Enhancing and supporting CI/CD pipelines for Node.js services
• Architecting scalable, resilient cloud solutions for data heavy workloads
• Managing containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)
• Improving observability across platforms, including monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Collaborating closely with Node.js engineers to streamline deployments and environments
• Embedding best practices across security, cost optimisation, and operational reliability

• Proven experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer within AWS centric environments
• Strong hands on Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform preferred)
• A solid background in CI/CD, automation, and modern DevOps tooling
• Experience supporting production Node.js applications
• Exposure to high throughput or data intensive systems
• Confidence working autonomously in a contract setting