DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer (SC & NPPV3)

Permanent

Birmingham (Hybrid)

£70,000- £75,000 + Benefits

We are seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer with AWS experience for a Permanent position. The role requires travel to Birmingham 2-3 days a week and an immediate start, ideally in July 2025.

Active SC clearance (that has been used within the last 12 months) and NPPV3 (thats been used within the last 6 months) are required for this role.

A Chance to Work with a Leading Digital Transformation Business Delivering Large-scale, Long-term IT Projects for the Public Sector.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Good experience with AWS technologies (eg, EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an AWS-based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
• Provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as Vagrant.
• Experience with DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
• Strong Scripting skills (eg, Shell, Python, PowerShell, Perl, JAVA) and automation skills.
• Thorough knowledge of Jenkins and pipeline using Groovy script.
• Experience with Docker containers and Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.
• Experience with system monitoring tools (eg, Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, and Node exporter).
• Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on Digital or Technology projects at a government organisations.
• Linux system administration experience, including building, hardening, and managing Linux operating systems. MS Active Directory configuration and management.
• Firewall and switch configuration and patch management.
• Understanding of network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).