AWS Platform DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

Note: Required Avtive Security Clearance and NPPV3

About the Role:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for creating the right environment for your multidisciplinary team to succeed, helping them to self-organize whilst fostering a culture of learning and transparency. You'll be a key part of one of the UK's biggest and most high-profile digital transformation programs, a once-in-a-generation reform of government products and services.

You'll keep pace with the introduction of relevant agile/lean tools and techniques and remove obstacles and blockers that might hinder delivery. DevOps is a culture, approach, and set of practices that apply lean process improvement and automation to enable a flow of working software to its real users. This means looking across organizational functions of Development and Operations that might previously have operated as separate silos.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop high quality and maintainable code with automation first approach.
• Provide in-depth insight into DevOps issues and strong technical experience.
• Maintain an open-minded attitude and ability to rapidly adapt and learn in line with DevOps culture.
• Facilitate workshops, meetings with a variety of stakeholders, show and tell, and drive outcomes.
• Manage technology change, issues, and escalations (external and internal), taking responsibility by owning them until they are mitigated or resolved.
• Lead by example, acting as a servant-leader, demonstrating the right behaviours, dealing with conflict, and helping establish a team culture that allows for constructive criticism.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience with a broad range of AWS technologies (eg, EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an AWS-based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
• Expertise in provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as Vagrant.
• Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24×7 uptime AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
• Strong Scripting skills (eg, Shell, Python, PowerShell, Perl, JAVA) and automation skills.
• Thorough knowledge of Jenkins and pipeline using Groovy script.
• Experience with Docker containers and Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.
• Experience with system monitoring tools (eg, Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, and Node exporter).
• Ability to analyse and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.
• Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.
• Knowledge of Windows System Update Service and DFS Replication.
• Experience with Windows Group Policy Objects and access/permissions control via GPO.
• Experience in automating and codifying the installation of software packages.
• Nexus security scanning and antivirus experience with ClamAV and MS defender.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Linux system administration experience, including building, hardening, and managing Linux operating systems.
• MS Active Directory configuration and management.
• Firewall and switch configuration and patch management.
• Understanding of network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).
• Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on digital or technology projects at a leading consultancy, agency, or government organization.
• AWS or Azure certification, or willingness to attain the certification.
• Self-starter, comfortable working in both process-driven and ambiguous environments.
• Experience and passion for working within Central Government and other sectors.
• Proven capability of working successfully with senior client stakeholders and end-users, quickly building successful relationships, and establishing credibility.
• Passion for digital and technology, with the drive and determination to continually learn new things and develop yourself and others.
• Strong written, presentation, and verbal communication skills, with a high degree of attention to detail.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to work independently in a highly collaborative, team-based environment