This role also 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
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
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