DevOps Engineer

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Location: London (Largely Remote Working)

Permenant - 80000 - 90000 PA

Due to the industries this role works in, we require the successful candidate to be able to obtain a high-level security clearance. To qualify for this, you must be a British citizen and have lived permanently in the UK for the last 5 years.

Digital Skills are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to join a client's team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, building and evolving their AWS cloud infrastructure and ensuring its reliability, scalability, and security. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in AWS services, automation tools, and DevOps practices. We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology, enjoys problem-solving, and has a collaborative mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Develop and implement automated tools and processes for building, deployment, monitoring, testing and maintenance of infrastructure and applications
• Develop and maintain policies and procedures for security, compliance, and disaster recovery
• Optimise infrastructure for high availability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency
• Continuously monitor and improve infrastructure and application performance
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and application issues
• Manage and mentor junior DevOps engineers

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 5+ years of experience in AWS cloud infrastructure design, implementation, and management
• Advanced proficiency with containers and container orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Extensive background in Configuration Management EKS and Automation
• Proficient programming skills in at least one language, preferably Python or Go
• Expert-level experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Ansible, CloudFormation or Terraform
• Extensive experience of deploying cloud platforms at scale using AWS Organisations / Control Tower / Landing Zones
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems administration
• Expert-level experience in AWS Networking / TCP / Firewalls / Certs
• Observability champion, experience of designing and building monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, ELK, and Grafana
• Strong scripting skills in Bash, JavaScript or similar knowledge of SecDevOps security best practices and experience implementing security controls in a cloud environment including SIEM, Guard Duty, Shield, Inspector and Security Hub
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline development and management
• Best practice configuration of Identity and Access Management and IAM Identity Center
• Experience with serverless architecture, frameworks and services such as SAM, Lambda and API Gateway

If this is the right role for you, please do apply.