DevOps Engineer - AWS | Central Government
Rate: £555 per day
Contract: Contract
Location: Predominantly remote with occasional/ad hoc travel to client sites
Clearance: Active SC Clearance required
The Role
We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a major digital transformation programme for a Central Government client.
You will work within a cloud-native AWS and Java environment, helping to build, maintain and optimise the infrastructure, deployment pipelines and cloud platforms underpinning critical public-facing digital services.
The successful candidate will have strong Central Government/public sector experience alongside a proven background in DevOps, AWS cloud engineering, automation and modern agile delivery environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement and maintain infrastructure across AWS cloud environments.
- Build and support CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and efficient software delivery.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployment.
- Support Java-based applications and microservices.
- Implement monitoring, alerting and logging solutions to maintain platform reliability and performance.
- Support platform security, compliance and operational resilience.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment and performance issues across development and production environments.
- Promote DevOps best practice, automation and continuous improvement.
- Support disaster recovery, backup and business continuity activities.
- Collaborate closely with Architects, Developers, Security and Delivery teams.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer within large-scale digital transformation programmes.
- Strong Central Government/public sector experience.
- Significant hands-on experience with AWS.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, CloudFormation or similar.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or similar.
- Experience supporting Java-based applications and microservices architectures.
- Strong Linux administration and scripting skills using Bash, Python or similar.
- Experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of monitoring and logging technologies such as CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK and Prometheus.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, networking and operational best practices.
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