AWS Devops Engineer (SC Cleared)

About Scrumconnect Consulting

Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens.

With a strong commitment to user-centred design, secure engineering, and agile delivery, we continue to build innovative digital services that truly matter.

Preferred Technical ExpertiseCloud Infrastructure

• AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Kafka, IAM)

Secure Hosting

• Experience working within air-gapped or government-secure environments

Container & Cluster Management

• Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher

• Helm

• Jenkins

Monitoring & Observability

• Prometheus

• Grafana

• ELK Stack

• Dynatrace

Secrets & Identity Management

• HashiCorp Vault

• Keycloak

CI/CD & DevOps Tooling

• Jenkins

• Git

• ServiceNow

• Trivy

• Terraform

Streaming & Messaging

• Apache Kafka (including Kafka Replication)

Data Technologies

• PostgreSQL

• Redis

• RDLs

Automation & Scripting

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Pipeline automation

• Event relay tooling

• Bash, Python, Groovy

• AWS Lambda

Key Responsibilities

• Run, manage, and continuously evolve AWS and secure on-premise environments to ensure high availability

• Lead Level 3 (L3) production support, including non-production maintenance and 24/7 on-call support

• Ensure services comply with government security standards and change/release governance models

• Build and maintain infrastructure components including:

  • Kafka event streaming

  • Aurora, RDS, and Redis databases

  • Identity management (Keycloak)

  • Caching and secure data layers

• Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines and developer self-service tooling

• Proactively manage technical debt in collaboration with governance bodies

• Improve automation, observability, and testing coverage across platform services

• Align infrastructure delivery with product roadmaps and platform strategy

• Support critical national infrastructure tasks including:

  • Deployments

  • Incident, problem, and change management (ITIL-aligned)

  • Continuous service improvement

• Use and integrate ServiceNow (or successor platforms) for operational governance

Diversity & Inclusion

At Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe diversity drives innovation. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where every individual is respected, valued, and supported.

We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences and actively encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, underrepresented communities, and those seeking flexible working arrangements.