AWS DevOps Engineer

This role includes hands-on work with automated testing, deployments, and infrastructure monitoring—alongside participation in Agile ceremonies, risk mitigation activities, and collaborative solution design. Cross-functional flexibility across systems engineering, software development, testing, and security is highly valued.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate experience in managing source code with GIT, including pull requests, branching strategies and collaborative version control workflows.
• Experience in designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure, including services like EC2, ECR, ECS, ECK, ASG, VPC, RDS, Load Balancers, Lambda, IAM, ports, R53 etc.
• Familiarity in IAC using Terraform and Ansible to provision, configure, and maintain secure and scalable cloud environments.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, implementing automation for building, testing, and deploying applications across multiple environments.
• Ability to write and maintain scripts and automation tools using Bash, Python, and PowerShell to enhance operational workflows and eliminate manual tasks.
• Familiarity with containerisation using Docker and orchestration best practices, along with configuration management using Ansible.
• Knowledge of secrets management and access control using tools like Vault and IAM policies, ensuring secure handling of credentials and sensitive information.
• Understanding of AWS security best practices, including encryption, patching, monitoring, least privilege access, and compliance requirements.
• Familiarity in implementing and managing backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data protection and business continuity.
• Ability to implement monitoring and logging solutions e.g., CloudWatch, to ensure system reliability, observability, and proactive incident response.
• Comfortable working in Agile development teams, translating business requirements into technical solutions, and actively participating in sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
• Familiarity to design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions that meet availability and performance objectives.
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and implement effective mitigation strategies in complex environments.
• Understanding of routing, traffic management, and load balancing, including configuration of NGINX and AWS-native tools for optimizing traffic flow.
• Familiarity with structured release and change management processes, including deployment governance, rollback strategies, and versioning control.
• Awareness of Java application environments and deployment considerations is a plus for supporting platform-wide consistency and integrations.
• Proactive mindset with a continuous improvement attitude, regularly identifying opportunities to enhance delivery pipelines, infrastructure, and development practices.
• Familiarity in designing and managing SNS topics for event-driven architectures, integrating notifications with Lambda, or external systems to support decoupled and scalable cloud workflows.
• Experience using Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket to support Agile delivery, documentation, collaboration, and CI/CD pipeline management.
• Working knowledge of Active Directory and ADFS for identity and access management, including group policy management, SSO, and integration with cloud authentication services.

Application Requirements:

• Hands-on experience in any programming language e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.
• Experience in Redhat OS in AWS OR Azure OR any other cloud provider as Redhat and Windows Admin in containerised solution in supporting application troubleshooting.
• IAC – Terraform.
• App config - Ansible or any other like Puppet.
• CI/CD pipeline like Jenkins or Azure DevOps or Bamboo, etc.
• Any Automation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or equivalent certification.
• Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Ansible for configuration management.
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• ITIL Foundation Certification or experience with ITIL-based environments.

Clearance Requirements:

• BPSS pre-screening required to start.
• Clearance for Role SC.
• Must be a UK Citizen and based in UK for the duration.
• Must have, or be able to obtain, a UK SC Clearance.