AWS Cloud Engineer - SC Clearance Needed
Posted 1 week ago by Mayfleet Recruitment Limited
£630 Per day
Undetermined
Undetermined
London, UK
Summary: The role of AWS Cloud Engineer requires current SC or DV clearance and involves joining a central Data & Insights team for a Central Government client. The position focuses on deploying web applications using AWS infrastructure and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices. Candidates should have experience with CI/CD pipelines and a strong understanding of security practices in a government context. Front End experience and performance optimization skills are also beneficial for this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Comprehensive understanding of deployment of web applications using AWS infrastructure, including but not limited to ECS, ECR, Athena, S3, Codepipeline, Lakeformation, Lambdas, and Cognito
- Ability to deploy architecture as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) most favourably via Terraform or Open Tofu.
- Experience in developing CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions and AWS Code-pipeline.
- Preferably experience in integrating the automatic deployment of IaC as part of a Github actions workflow.
- Strong understanding of authentication and security practices, particularly in a government context.
- Experience in developing and implementing row level security practices for Front End applications would also be beneficial.
- Understanding of network security and how this integrates with the deployment of web applications, for both external and internal audiences.
- Some Front End experience, particularly with plotly-dash and JavaScript frameworks would also be beneficial.
- Ability to improve the performance of existing applications for example by optimising the efficiency of existing workflows via the introduction of data caching tooling.
Key Skills:
- Current SC or DV Clearance
- Deployment of web applications using AWS infrastructure
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Open Tofu
- CI/CD pipeline development using Github Actions and AWS Code-pipeline
- Understanding of authentication and security practices in a government context
- Row level security practices for Front End applications
- Network security knowledge
- Front End experience with plotly-dash and JavaScript frameworks
- Performance optimization skills
Salary (Rate): £630 PD
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
*Current, Active SC or DV Clearance is needed for this role from the outset*
My Central Gov client are seeking a new Cloud Engineer, to join their central Data & Insights team;
- Comprehensive understanding of deployment of web applications using AWS infrastructure, including but not limited to ECS, ECR, Athena, S3, Codepipeline, Lakeformation, Lambdas, and Cognito
- Ability to deploy architecture as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) most favourably via Terraform or Open Tofu.
- Experience in developing CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions and AWS Code-pipeline.
- Preferably experience in integrating the automatic deployment of IaC as part of a Github actions workflow.
- Strong understanding of authentication and security practices, particularly in a government context.
- Experience in developing and implementing row level security practices for Front End applications would also be beneficial.
- Understanding of network security and how this integrates with the deployment of web applications, for both external and internal audiences.
- Some Front End experience, particularly with plotly-dash and JavaScript frameworks would also be beneficial.
- Ability to improve the performance of existing applications for example by optimising the efficiency of existing workflows via the introduction of data caching tooling.
Please send through your CV ASAP to discuss an application in more detail.