DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Develop and maintain reusable, internally owned Terraform modules and infrastructure patterns.
• Manage and troubleshoot Linux-based production systems.
• Build and operate containerised workloads using Docker and AWS ECS.
• Manage Docker images and registries using Amazon ECR.
• Design and troubleshoot AWS networking, including VPCs, routing, ALBs, Transit Gateway, NAT, security groups and IAM.
• Configure and troubleshoot IPSec VPN connections, including StrongSwan-based deployments.
• Configure and maintain nginx-based services and reverse proxies.
• Automate infrastructure configuration and operational tasks using Ansible and Python.
• Investigate production incidents across application, operating system, networking, container and cloud infrastructure layers.
• Improve infrastructure reliability, security, observability, performance and maintainability.
• Contribute to CI/CD and Git-based infrastructure and deployment workflows.
• Review infrastructure changes and contribute to technical design decisions.
• Reduce manual operations through automation and better tooling.
• Document infrastructure architecture, operational procedures and reusable solutions.
• Support operational issues and BAU activities across the platform.

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, including modules, state, providers, dependencies, lifecycle and infrastructure design.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, particularly EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, CloudFront, ALB, VPC networking and IAM.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, preferably Debian/Ubuntu.
• Good understanding of TCP/IP, routing, DNS, NAT, firewalls and VPN concepts.
• Practical experience with Docker and containerised applications.
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting nginx.
• Experience with Ansible and infrastructure automation.
• Ability to write automation and operational tooling using Python.
• Experience troubleshooting real production environments across multiple infrastructure layers.
• Good understanding of Git-based development and infrastructure workflows.

Highly Valuable:

• AWS Transit Gateway and multi-VPC or multi-account network architectures.
• IPSec VPNs / StrongSwan.
• Designing reusable Terraform modules for multiple environments or teams.
• Production experience with AWS ECS.
• AWS security and IAM design.
• Network troubleshooting using tools such as tcpdump, ss, dig, curl, openssl and traceroute.
• Designing highly available and resilient cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, observability and incident response.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch or similar technologies.

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. 

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics. 

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