Jobs, fresher vacancy - AWS DevOps Engineer • Gloucestershire

Company: Digital Waffle

Gloucestershire

Job Title: AWS DevOps Engineer Location: Gloucester (Hybrid) Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 per annum We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our growing team in Gloucester. You'll be responsible for building and maintaining secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure while working closely with our development teams to streamline deployment processes. What You'll Be Doing: Provisioning and managing servers on DigitalOcean Managing deployments via Laravel Forge Ubuntu administration, including patching and updates Enforcing security best practices across all environments Managing SSL certificates / Let's Encrypt for secure communications Setting up and maintaining logging and monitoring solutions Configuring Cloudflare (rules, WAF deployment) ModSecurity configuration and optimisation MySQL/MariaDB configuration, encryption, and performance tuning Setting up and managing Managed Databases Nice to Have: Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) CI/CD integration experience (Forge, DeployHQ, or similar tools) What We're Looking For: Ideally from a software engineering background, with a strong understanding of development workflows Solid Linux/Ubuntu system administration experience Proven track record managing cloud-based infrastructure Security-focused mindset with experience hardening applications Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and database issues Why Join Us? Competitive salary (£60k-£70k) Work with a modern, evolving tech stack Influence tooling and infrastructure decisions Career growth opportunities in a collaborative environment If you're a proactive DevOps Engineer who enjoys solving infrastructure challenges and working closely with developers, we'd love to hear from you.