AWS Devops Engineer (SC Eligible/SC Cleared)- Outside IR 35
Posted Today by scrumconnect ltd
Negotiable
Outside
Undetermined
London, UK
Summary: The AWS DevOps Engineer role at Scrumconnect Consulting involves managing and evolving AWS and secure on-premise environments, ensuring high availability and compliance with security standards. The position requires leading production support, enhancing CI/CD tooling, and collaborating with teams to support scalable services. The role emphasizes automation, observability, and data-driven decision-making within a diverse and inclusive work environment. Candidates must be eligible for or hold SC clearance to work on government projects.
Key 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).
Key Skills:
- Expertise in AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Kafka, IAM).
- Experience with secure hosting in air-gapped or government-secure environments.
- Proficiency in container and cluster management tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Jenkins, and Helm.
- Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and Dynatrace.
- Experience with secrets and identity management tools such as HashiCorp Vault and Keycloak.
- Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps tooling including Jenkins, Git, ServiceNow, Trivy, and Terraform.
- Understanding of streaming and messaging technologies, particularly Apache Kafka.
- Experience with data layers including PostgreSQL, Redis, and RDLs.
- Skills in automation, including IaC and pipeline build automation.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, Groovy, and Lambda functions.
Salary (Rate): £500 daily
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
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
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Cloud Infrastructure : AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Kafka, IAM)
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Secure Hosting : Experience working with air-gapped or government-secure environments
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Container & Cluster Management : Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Jenkins, Helm
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Monitoring & Observability : Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Dynatrace
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Secrets & Identity Management : HashiCorp Vault, Keycloak
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CI/CD & DevOps Tooling : Jenkins, Git, ServiceNow, Trivy, Terraform
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Streaming & Messaging : Apache Kafka (including Kafka Replication)
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Data Layers : PostgreSQL, Redis, RDLs
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Automation : IaC, pipeline build automation, event relay tooling
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Scripting : Bash, Python, Groovy, Lambda functions
Responsibilities
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Run, manage, and continuously evolve the AWS and secure on-premise environments to ensure availability .
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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)
Diversity & Inclusion
At Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe that 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 we actively encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, underrepresented communities, and those seeking flexible working arrangements.