RWS Group
RWS Group
5,001 – 10,000 Employees
ConsultingHealthcareLegal
RWS Group provides AI-powered language services and technology for translation, localization, and multilingual content management. Its solutions support organizations in aerospace, finance, legal, life sciences, healthcare, consulting, and technology by helping improve translation workflows and communication across languages and cultures.

Senior DevOps Engineer — Remote in the United Kingdom

Senior DevOps contractor delivering RWS’s AWS-based self-service VM provisioning platform. Establish Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, and Backstage patterns for a secure, reproducible engineering workflow.

Description

  • Deliver Phase 1 of the AWS pipeline end to end, from repository setup and Terraform compute modules to Ansible configuration, remote state, validation, and provisioning workflows.
  • Own the Terraform and Ansible architecture, including the transition from infrastructure provisioning to machine configuration.
  • Maintain declarative, reproducible state for every virtual machine.
  • Develop the GitOps workflow in GitHub Actions using OIDC-based, keyless AWS authentication and least-privilege IAM.
  • Implement TTL-based expiry and decommissioning, pull-request-driven resizing, and snapshot and restore capabilities.
  • Publish the pipeline through a Backstage Software Template.
  • Create the JSON schema and documentation needed for the Backstage integration.
  • Mentor and develop the internal DevOps engineer.
  • Lead structured knowledge transfer so the internal team can operate and extend the platform independently.
  • Work with Networking, AD/Identity, Security, and Operations owners to resolve delivery dependencies.

Requirements

  • Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
  • Practical Ansible configuration-management experience, including Terraform-to-Ansible handoffs.
  • Demonstrated success building complete provisioning and infrastructure-lifecycle pipelines.
  • Hands-on cloud engineering experience spanning compute, storage, IAM or identity, and networking.
  • AWS experience is preferred; equivalent depth with another hyperscaler is also relevant.
  • Experience defining CI/CD pipelines as code with GitHub Actions and OIDC federation.
  • Experience with GitOps and pull-request-driven delivery workflows.
  • Strong Windows Server and Active Directory expertise.
  • Python experience for validation and engineering tools.
  • Excellent written and spoken English.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed team.
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and transferring operational ownership.

Benefits

  • Commitment to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination.
  • Inclusive workplace focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • Opportunities for personal growth and career development.
  • Work alongside colleagues who value ideas, data, and content.
  • Distributed-team working environment.

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