Applause IT Recruitment Ltd
DevOps Engineer
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DevOps Engineer
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Description

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

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