Systems Architecture, DevOps, and Infrastructure Oversight Contractor (ZR_23243_JOB)

This is a remote position.

• 11 AM to 8 PM Monday to Friday
  
• Time zone: UK / BST Time
  

We are seeking a highly experienced Systems Architecture, DevOps, and Infrastructure Oversight Contractor to lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the infrastructure and technical operations that power our core systems. This role will be instrumental in maintaining platform reliability, driving DevOps excellence, and aligning our systems architecture with product and technical goals.

You will be the senior technical authority across infrastructure, DevOps practices, and system architecture—providing hands-on support, strategic direction, and implementation expertise to ensure a stable, secure, and scalable environment for development and production operations.

Key Responsibilities

• CI/CD Management: Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for staging and production environments.
  

• Cloud Infrastructure Oversight: Manage and optimize our AWS infrastructure, focusing on scalability, load balancing, performance, cost efficiency, and security.
  

• Monitoring & Observability: Maintain and improve monitoring and alerting systems (e.g., UptimeRobot, Sentry, SonarQube) to ensure system health and fast incident response.
  

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implement and manage infrastructure through code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
  

• Access & Secrets Management: Enforce role-based access control and secure secrets management protocols.
  

• Architectural Strategy: Advise on systems architecture, including hosting strategies, service decomposition, and data flow design.
  

• Legacy System Refactoring: Review and recommend improvements to existing systems to optimize performance and