DevOps Engineer - Contract
AWS DevOps Engineer - Contract (SC Cleared)
Rate: £575 p/day Inside IR35
Duration: 4-5 months initially with high likelihood of extension
Start: ASAP (pending clearance transfer)
Location: Home-based with occasional London site visits
Clearance: Active SC required
Overview
An opportunity for an experienced Principal AWS DevOps Engineer to lead the design and optimisation of large-scale cloud and DevOps environments within a secure, high-impact programme with the Home Office.
Responsibilities
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Lead the design and automation of scalable AWS infrastructure
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Build and optimise enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines
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Provide technical leadership across DevOps best practices
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Influence architecture and drive continuous improvement
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Mentor engineers and support incident resolution
Key Skills & Experience
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10+ years AWS engineering across large, mission-critical platforms
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Strong IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK)
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Advanced CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline)
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Containers & orchestration (Docker, EKS/ECS)
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Linux/Windows, networking, monitoring & observability
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Excellent stakeholder engagement skills
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Experience supporting Java-based platforms
Nice to Have
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AWS certifications
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Chef/Puppet/Ansible
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Enterprise Cloud Landing Zone experience
Summary
A senior-level DevOps contract role offering strong rates, flexible working, and the chance to shape complex AWS environments - active SC clearance essential.