SC Cleared Platform AWS Engineer (Database & Linux)

Platform AWS Engineer (Database & Linux)

Clearance required: SC Mandatory

Interview process: Tech IV

Location: Hybrid - Ocassional travel to London

IR35 Status: PAYE via Umbrella company only

Job Description:

AWS Platform Administrator - Skills and Experience
Required Skills
Devops
o Linux (Redhat, RPMs, SELinux, filesystems, users/groups, systems management)
o Ansible
o Git (Github, Actions CI, repositories, branches, merge requests/code reviews, etc)
o General networking, IP Addressing, CIDRs, TCP/IP, TLS certificates, etc.
o Running and working with Java applications, JVMs, processes etc.
o Nginx (primarily as a Proxy)
o Performance management (CPU/disk/memory sizing, etc)
o Knowledge of OpenVPN, SSH and of Client Server configuration.

AWS (Admin)
o EC2 instances, ASGs, Load Balancers, Target Groups
o IAM roles, policies, Instance Profiles, permissions etc.
o Mutli-account operations (assuming roles, working with multiple accounts)
o Secrets Manager
o Systems Manager
o Terraform/OpenTofu
o Networking VPC Peering, Routing
o Exposure to AWS Organisations and Service Control Policies

Security
o Able to implement security at every layer of a system stack, understanding what is likely to be an acceptable level of security, depending on the situation
o Able to work with security specialists to achieve the aims and requirements of the project

Optional Skills
Architecting systems to be low-overhead, low complexity and minimum tech-debt
ServiceNow (self-hosted)
Working in secure, governance/assurance-lead organisations
Microsoft technologies such as SSO and Sharepoint
Some level of tech support type skills
AWS Command line (awscli) and/or Boto3
Collaborative writing and reviews of documentation (GFLM and Confluence)