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
What You’ll Bring *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
If your looking for a new challenge and this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Please apply with your most Up-to-Date CV, please contact me at

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer | Hybrid | Bristol | Onsite 3 days per week | OutsideIR35