Role Title: DevOps Engineer/AWS Platform Engineer
Role Location: Solihull, UK
Role Type: Permanent (Hybrid)
Must hold active Security Clearance.
Job Description:-
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.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop high quality and maintainable code with automation first approach.
Provide in-depth insight into DevOps issues and strong technical experience.
Maintain an open-minded attitude and ability to rapidly adapt and learn in line with
DevOps culture.
Facilitate workshops, meetings with a variety of stakeholders, show and tell, and drive
outcomes.
Manage technology change, issues, and escalations (external and internal), taking
responsibility by owning them until they are mitigated or resolved.
Lead by example, acting as a servant-leader, demonstrating the right behaviours,
dealing with conflict, and helping establish a team culture that allows for constructive
criticism.
Essential Skills and Experience:
5+ years of experience with a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g., 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.
Expertise in provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as
Vagrant.
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, 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 (e.g., Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus,
and Node exporter).
Ability to analyse and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application
deployment issues.
Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change
management.
Knowledge of Windows System Update Service and DFS Replication.
Experience with Windows Group Policy Objects and access/permissions control via
GPO.
Experience in automating and codifying the installation of software packages.
Nexus security scanning and antivirus experience with ClamAV and MS defender.
Desired Skills and Experience:
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, SSH, FTP, SMTP).
Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on digital or technology projects at a
leading consultancy, agency, or government organization.
AWS or Azure certification, or willingness to attain the certification.
Self-starter, comfortable working in both process-driven and ambiguous
environments.
Experience and passion for working within Central Government and other sectors.
Proven capability of working successfully with senior client stakeholders and end-
users, quickly building successful relationships, and establishing credibility.
Passion for digital and technology, with the drive and determination to continually
learn new things and develop yourself and others.
Strong written, presentation, and verbal communication skills, with a high degree of
attention to detail.
Strong organizational skills, with the ability to work independently in a highly
collaborative, team-based environment.
The right to live and work in the UK, be a British national (ideally not dual nationality)
and have lived in the UK to obtain SC clearance.