Senior DevOps Engineer

Company Description

Do you want to develop your career and make an impact in the fast-growth, fast-moving B2B technology space?

At Informa TechTarget, you’ll collaborate and grow alongside some of the industry’s most respected experts. You’ll work with leading brands and be exposed to world-shaping innovations. You’ll apply your energy and intellect to helping clients be faster to market and faster to revenue.

We’re a vibrant community of world-class practitioners – over 2000 colleagues strong – with offices in 19 locations around the world. We’re traded on Nasdaq and also part of Informa PLC, a global leader in business-to-business events, digital services, and academic research in the FTSE 100.

About Informa TechTarget

Informa TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT) informs, influences and connects the world’s technology buyers and sellers, to accelerate growth from R&D to ROI.

With an unparalleled reach of over 220 highly targeted technology-specific websites and more than 50 million permissioned first-party audience members, Informa TechTarget has a unique understanding of and insight into technology markets.

Underpinned by those audiences and their data, we offer expert-led, data-driven, and digitally enabled services that deliver significant impact and measurable outcomes to our clients. We provide our customers with:

• Trusted information that shapes the industry and informs investment
• Intelligence and advice that guides and influences strategy
• Advertising that grows reputation and establishes thought leadership
• Custom content that engages and prompts action
• Intent and demand generation that more precisely targets and converts

Our organization is committed to sustainability, diversity, wellbeing, and ethical working practices. Visit informatechtarget.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

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Job Description

This role is based in our 240 Blackfriars, London office.

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our Windows-based infrastructure running in AWS. This role is focused on operational excellence, security, automation, and developer enablement.

You’ll work closely with product engineering teams to ensure systems are secure, reliable, and easy to deploy, while driving improvements in CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure automation.

What You’ll Do

• Manage and operate Windows Server environments in AWS (EC2), ensuring high availability and performance
• Own patching, vulnerability management, and system hardening processes across Windows workloads
• Monitor and respond to security events, working closely with security teams to remediate risks
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support consistent, reliable application deployments
• Implement and improve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or similar tools
• Develop automation using PowerShell and scripting to reduce manual operational overhead
• Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure system health
• Partner with product engineering teams to troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues
• Support releases and ensure smooth deployment processes across environments
• Participate in on-call rotations and act as an escalation point for production incidents
• Lead or contribute to incident response and post-mortems, driving long-term improvements

Core Tech Stack

AWS (Primary)

• EC2 (Windows workloads), VPC, IAM
• S3, EBS, Systems Manager (SSM)
• CloudWatch (or integration with tools like Datadog)
• Load Balancers (ALB/NLB)

Infrastructure & Automation

• Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation
• CI/CD: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar

Microsoft / Windows

• Windows Server administration
• MS SQL Server (standalone and AWS RDS)
• Active Directory / identity integration
• IIS and .NET application hosting
• PowerShell scripting and automation

Observability & Operations

• Monitoring and alerting platforms (Datadog, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Logging and incident response tooling

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Systems Engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments
• Proven experience managing Windows Server infrastructure (preferably in AWS)
• Experience with patching, vulnerability remediation, and security event handling
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform strongly preferred)
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting production systems
• Ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams and support production workloads