About the Job
Games Workshop has an exciting opportunity to join us as a Senior Level Cloud Native Engineer on a 12-month contract. In this role, you’ll be part of a team delivering critical customer facing eCommerce solutions and applications for Games Workshop, using modern technologies.
As a Senior Level Cloud Native Engineer, you’ll spend time to really understand the challenges you are trying to solve, creating high quality solutions through collaboration with colleagues to ensure you deliver at pace. Working with other Developers and alongside Quality Assurance, you will deliver digital product and platform changes using a strong engineering process, ensuring solutions are reliable, secure and scalable for the Games Workshop business.
Commercially aware and a keen problem solver, we’ll look to you to efficiently deliver quality solutions to business requirements, being aware of platform costs and working to optimise those wherever possible without compromising operations.
Highly collaborative and a team player, you’ll work within robust testing processes which facilitate rapid delivery of high quality software. You’ll work consistently to uphold and raise the quality of team output through code reviews and feedback. Always focusing on delivering value to Games Workshop you’ll identify technical debt and areas of process improvement.
You’ll have experience of working in AWS, with AWS CDK and/or infrastructure as code, to develop secure and scalable systems that are architected according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework. You’ll be accustomed to using techniques like Test Driven Development and Paired Programming to create secure and performant software.
We’re looking for someone who has a positive outlook, regardless of setbacks with great adaptability to change, combined with an understanding of technologies such as TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS Technologies, GitHub, and Contentful.
If you’re a Senior Level Cloud Developer who can rapidly deliver solutions to business problems using serverless and cloud-based application stacks and support the adoption of modern technical practices, this could be the position for you:
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Working at Games Workshop
At Games Workshop we are looking for people who will do their best to understand the needs of the company and to put those needs first when they are at work. Because of this we believe that what you are like, hence the attitude you show to work and the way you choose to behave is even more important than your skills and experience.
The Warhammer World site is based just outside of Nottingham city centre and benefits from a nearby tram stop and free onsite car parking.
In return for your hard work, you will receive 33 days holiday per year (including public holidays), matching contributory pension scheme up to 7.5%, profit share bonus (subject to GW meeting profit targets) and option to join our Share Save scheme. Oh and let’s not forget, a staff discount of between 25% and 50% on our products!
Other Essential Information
Location: This role will be granted on a hybrid working basis
Closing date for applications is midnight, UK time, Sunday 31st May 2026
This is a 12 month contract
How to Apply
To apply, please send us a letter or a video telling us why you want this job. This is a great opportunity for you to let us know that you understand what we are looking for.
Please include an up-to-date CV to support your application. When you’re ready, please click apply, below.
