AWS DevOps Engineer

AWS DevOps Engineer

Location: London (Hybrid)

Salary: £50,000/yr - £85,000/yr

Permanent

AWS DevOps Engineer – London (Hybrid, 2 days on site) – £50,000 to £85,000 + bonuses

The client:

Your potential employer sits at the heart of British Defence and Space and delivers a multitude of services to various public sector clients. They have sites across the UK but this role is for the London region where you’re expected to work.

We encourage applications from other regions but bear in mind you may have to relocate to make life easier and commute smaller.

About the Role:

As a Platform/DevOps Engineer, you’ll work as a key member of an Engineering team with our customers to build systems that support their core mission capabilities. You’ll work in empowered, autonomous DevOps teams to understand, design, develop, deploy and maintain applications and services. You will be encouraged to identify new ways of solving problems and work in a range of different teams across our customer organizations. This role requires Security Clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with customers to build systems that support their mission capabilities
• Work in autonomous DevOps teams to develop and maintain applications and services
• Identify new ways of solving problems and work with different teams across customer organizations
• Support training with access to services such as Pluralsight, Udemy, and internal tools
• Fully embrace DevOps ways of working and operate in roles that expose you to the full delivery lifecycle

Requirements:

• Minimum 1.5 years of experience with AWS and DevOps
• Experience in a DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure role
• Good communication and problem-solving skills
• Desire to learn new technologies
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tooling
• Scripting abilities with languages such as Shell, Bash, Python, or TypeScript, etc
• Working knowledge of Linux, networking, routing & firewalls etc
• Experience of working in an Agile environment (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc)
• Infrastructure as Code tools AWS CDK and cloud formation

Preferred qualifications:

• Background in consultancies preferred but not essential
• Configuration Management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible, etc.
• Cloud technologies such as AWS; Codecommit, CodePipeline, API Gateway, Lambda
• Docker and container runtime platforms such as Kubernetes, Openshift, or Marathon/Mesos, etc.
• Additional Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or other relevant technologies

SC clearance or eligibility is mandatory for the role, please apply with your CV only if you are able to meet this requirement.