AWS DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Clearance: SC Clearance required

Location: UK, Remote (with monthly travel to the client’s London office)

Contract Length: 12 months (with scope to extend)

IR35: Inside

Interview Process: 1 Stage, MS Teams

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join out client in the public sector. The successful candidate will support and enhance a cloud-native platform built on microservices and containerised architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, harden, and support platform and containerised services
• Design, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines
• Automate infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, and/or Puppet
• Support development teams deploying secure microservices
• Implement monitoring and observability using Prometheus and Grafana
• Manage incidents, including on-call and out-of-hours support
• Maintain documentation and participate in peer reviews

Technology

• AWS cloud services
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Helm
• CI/CD pipelines
• Linux
• Terraform
• Puppet and/or Ansible
• Git
• Prometheus and Grafana
• Microservices architecture
• Kafka and distributed streaming
• MongoDB, MySQL, or other RDBMS
• Security fundamentals including PKI
• Experience supporting high-availability, distributed systems