At a Glance
- Tasks: Create a thriving environment for your team and drive digital transformation in government services.
- Company: Join a leading tech firm at the forefront of digital innovation.
- Benefits: Flexible work arrangements, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic team with a culture of learning and transparency.
- Why this job: Be part of a high-profile project that shapes the future of public services.
- Qualifications: 10+ years in AWS technologies and strong DevOps experience required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Location: 1-2 days a week from Croydon with occasional travel to Solihull based on business needs
Security Clearance: SC Cleared, 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.
Essential Skills and Experience:
- 10+ years of experience with a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g., EC2, ECS, RDS, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, SSM, HSM) to develop and maintain an AWS-based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
- Expertise in AWS networking using VPC, NACLs, route53, transit gateways and VIFs.
- Expertise in provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as Vagrant.
- Experience with using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to support automation.
- Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
- Strong scripting skills (e.g. Shell, Python, PowerShell) and automation skills.
- Experience in configuring Open LDAP.
- Thorough knowledge of Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline using Groovy script.
- Experience with Docker containers and Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.
- Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, and Node exporter).
- Experience in deploying and configuring Postfix SMTP and Dovecot IMAP servers.
- Experience configuring mail clients like Thunderbird and Outlook Office 365.
- Experience working with implementing COTS products.
- Experience in configuring and maintaining Nginx and squid proxy with mTLS.
- Ability to analyse and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.
- Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.
- Experience in automating and codifying the installation of software packages.
- Nessus security scanning and antivirus experience with ClamAV and MS Defender.
AWS DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared) employer: LSA Recruit
At LSA Recruit, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer by fostering a dynamic work culture that values innovation and collaboration. Our Glasgow location offers unique opportunities for professional growth, with comprehensive training provided to ensure our engineers excel in their roles. Join us to be part of a supportive team that is dedicated to making a meaningful impact in the telecommunications industry.
