Senior DevOps Engineer

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Senior DevOps contractor building RWS’s AWS-based self-service VM provisioning platform. Establishing Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, and Backstage engineering patterns.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead delivery of the Phase 1 AWS pipeline end to end, including repository scaffolding, Terraform compute module, Ansible configuration, remote state, validation tooling, and provisioning workflow
  • Own Terraform and Ansible architecture and the handoff between infrastructure provisioning and machine configuration
  • Keep every VM’s state declarative and reproducible
  • Build the GitOps flow on GitHub Actions with OIDC-based, keyless AWS authentication and least-privilege IAM
  • Implement TTL-based expiry and decommissioning, PR-driven resizing, and snapshot/restore
  • Expose the pipeline as a Backstage Software Template
  • Produce the JSON schema and documentation required for the Backstage integration
  • Mentor and upskill the internal DevOps engineer
  • Run structured knowledge transfer so the internal team can operate and extend the platform independently
  • Coordinate with Networking, AD/Identity, Security, and Operations dependency owners to unblock delivery

Requirements:

  • Deep, hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform
  • Configuration management experience with Ansible, including fluency in the handoff between Terraform and Ansible
  • Proven track record building end-to-end provisioning and lifecycle pipelines
  • Hands-on cloud engineering across compute, storage, IAM/identity, and networking
  • AWS experience preferred, or demonstrable equivalent depth on another hyperscaler
  • CI/CD pipeline-as-code experience with GitHub Actions and OIDC federation
  • GitOps / PR-driven workflows experience
  • Deep Windows Server and Active Directory experience
  • Python experience for validation and tooling
  • Excellent written and spoken English
  • Effective collaboration in a distributed team
  • Genuine track record of mentoring engineers and transferring ownership

Benefits:

  • Equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination commitment
  • Inclusive work environment supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • Opportunities for individual growth and career development
  • Work with smart people passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content
  • Distributed-team working environment