AWS Devops (SC Cleared - UK National)

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 and agile delivery, and more to deliver innovative digital services that matter

Preferred Tech Stack Expertise

• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Kafka, IAM)

• Secure Hosting: Experience working with air-gapped or government-secure environments

• Container & Cluster Management: Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Jenkins, Helm

• 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 Layers: PostgreSQL, Redis, RDLs

• Automation: IaC, pipeline build automation, event relay tooling

• Scripting: Bash, Python, Groovy, Lambda functions

Responsibilities

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

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

• Ensure all services are compliant with security standards and support the change and release governance model.

• Build and maintain infrastructure components like event streaming (Kafka), databases (Aurora, RDS, Redis), identity management (Keycloak), and caching layers.

• Enhance and maintain CI/CD tooling and self-service developer pipelines for tenant teams.

• Proactively manage and resolve tech debt by working with central governance bodies and ensure visibility to the board.

• Increase automation, observability, and testing coverage across the platform components while enabling data-driven decision-making.

• Align delivery with the product roadmap, collaborating with internal/external platform and infrastructure teams to support scalable and resilient services.

• Support critical national infrastructure tasks including platform deployments, incident/problem/change management, and continual service improvement (ITIL-aligned).

• Use and integrate ServiceNow (or its successor) to track and manage changes, incidents, requests, and problem records.

• Support replication services, match engines, secure data flows (Impex, Threat, Kafka replication)