DevOps Engineer

Overview

In this role, you enable and sustain cloud-native infrastructure and deployment platforms for a central government digital transformation programme. You will work in an AWS and Java environment to build, optimise and operate critical public-facing services. You’ll design scalable infrastructure, automate provisioning and CI/CD pipelines, and ensure security, reliability and resilience. You join a cross-functional team, collaborating with Architects, Developers, Security and Delivery teams to deliver secure, compliant cloud solutions. This is a mission-driven opportunity to shape government digital services at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain infrastructure across AWS environments
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable software delivery
• Automate provisioning, configuration and deployment
• Support Java-based applications and microservices
• Implement monitoring, alerting and logging to maintain platform reliability and performance
• Support platform security, compliance and operational resilience
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment and performance issues across environments
• Promote DevOps best practices, automation and continuous improvement
• Support disaster recovery, backup and business continuity activities
• Collaborate with Architects, Developers, Security and Delivery teams

Key requirements

• Proven DevOps Engineer with large-scale digital transformation experience
• Strong Central Government/public sector experience
• Significant hands-on AWS experience
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation or similar)
• CI/CD pipelines experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or similar)
• Experience supporting Java-based applications and microservices
• Strong Linux administration and scripting (Bash, Python or similar)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of monitoring/logging (CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK, Prometheus)
• Strong cloud security, networking and operational best practices

• collaboration
• problem-solving
• continuous improvement
• AWS
• Terraform/CloudFormation
• Jenkins

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