AWS Platform DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

AWS Platform DevOps Engineer (SC & NPPV3)

6-month Contract

Birmingham (Hybrid)

£450-£500/day Outside IR35

We are seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer with AWS experience for a contract position based in Birmingham.The role requires travel to Birmingham 2-3 days a week and an immediate start, ideally in July 2025.

Active SC clearance (that has been used within the last 12 months) and NPPV3 (that\’s been used within the last 6 months) are required for this role.

A Chance to Work with a Leading Digital Transformation Business Delivering Large-scale, Long-term IT Projects for the Public Sector.

Key skills & experience:

• Good experience with AWS technologies (e.g., 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.
• Provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as Vagrant.
• Experience with DevOps Engineer in a 24×7 uptime AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., 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 (e.g. Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, Node exporter).
• Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on Digital or Technology projects at a government organisations.
• Knowledge of Windows System Update Service and DFS Replication.
• Linux system administration experience: 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).
• Experience with Windows Group Policy Objects and access/permissions control via GPO.