AWS DevOps Engineer

AWS DevOps Engineer

Posted 1 week ago by Trust In SODA

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£367 Per day
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Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
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Summary: The AWS DevOps Engineer role involves migrating applications to Kubernetes-based platforms and providing production support within AWS environments. The position requires building CI/CD pipelines and managing infrastructure automation while ensuring system availability and performance. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams and participate in on-call support. This is a hybrid role based in Knutsford, Cheshire, with a contract lasting until the end of December 2025.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Migrate existing applications from Cloudera to Kubernetes-based platforms, with an upgrade to RHEL 8
  • Support production deployments and releases following strict runbook and change management practices
  • Provide L2/L3 application support within AWS environments, including incident, problem, and change management
  • Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation jobs, and DevOps toolchains
  • Develop and support Cloud platforms, ensuring availability, performance, and integration with development and analytics pipelines
  • Work across multi-tier infrastructure involving Linux, Windows, RDBMS, JBOSS, SpringBoot, and Microservice Architectures
  • Participate in an on-call support rota and proactively manage platform issues and improvements
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage stakeholder communications effectively

Key Skills:

  • Strong experience in AWS production support (L2/L3)
  • CI/CD pipeline management using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Nexus, Sonarqube, TeamCity
  • Automation scripting skills with Shell, Python, Chef, or Perl
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
  • Proven experience deploying/configuring JBOSS, SpringBoot applications
  • Experience in incident response, release management, and change control in live environments
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Salary (Rate): £367 per day

City: Knutsford

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Title: AWS DevOps Engineer

Start date: ASAP

Location, Knutsford, Cheshire (hybrid)

Salary: Up to £367 per day (inside IR35)

Contract: Until the end of Dec 2025

Key Responsibilities:

  • Migrate existing applications from Cloudera to Kubernetes-based platforms, with an upgrade to RHEL 8
  • Support production deployments and releases following strict runbook and change management practices
  • Provide L2/L3 application support within AWS environments, including incident, problem, and change management
  • Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation jobs, and DevOps toolchains
  • Develop and support Cloud platforms, ensuring availability, performance, and integration with development and analytics pipelines
  • Work across multi-tier infrastructure involving Linux, Windows, RDBMS, JBOSS, SpringBoot, and Microservice Architectures
  • Participate in an on-call support rota and proactively manage platform issues and improvements
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage stakeholder communications effectively

Essential Skills:

  • Strong experience in AWS production support (L2/L3)
  • CI/CD pipeline management using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Nexus, Sonarqube, TeamCity
  • Automation scripting skills with Shell, Python, Chef, or Perl
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
  • Proven experience deploying/configuring JBOSS, SpringBoot applications
  • Experience in incident response, release management, and change control in live environments
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Desirable Skills:

  • Familiarity with microservices and API integrations
  • Knowledge of Active Directory (AD) for authentication and integration
  • Experience with monitoring/logging tools such as AppDynamics, ELK, Kibana, and Splunk
  • Understanding of security gates and code quality tools (e.g., SonarQube)
  • Experience supporting test environments and resolving infrastructure/application issues
  • Background in working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and complex DevOps delivery chains
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