AWS Platform DevOps Engineer

AWS Platform DevOps Engineer

Posted 1 week ago by TieTalent

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£500 Per day
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Hybrid
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Summary: The AWS Platform DevOps Engineer role is a 6-month contract position based in Birmingham, requiring active SC and NPPV3 clearance. The engineer will work primarily on AWS technologies to develop and maintain cloud solutions, with a focus on security and automation. The position involves a hybrid working arrangement, requiring travel to Birmingham 2-3 days a week. An immediate start is preferred, ideally in July 2025.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain AWS-based cloud solutions with a focus on security best practices.
  • Provision infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools like Vagrant.
  • Automate processes in a 24x7 uptime AWS environment using configuration management tools.
  • Utilize strong scripting skills for automation tasks.
  • Manage Jenkins and pipelines using Groovy script.
  • Work with Docker containers and Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.
  • Implement system monitoring using tools like Grafana and Prometheus.
  • Utilize Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.

Key Skills:

  • Experience with AWS technologies (EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS).
  • Strong scripting skills (Shell, Python, PowerShell, Perl, JAVA).
  • Experience with Docker and Linux system administration.
  • Knowledge of Jenkins and pipeline management.
  • Experience with system monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus).
  • Familiarity with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow.
  • Hands-on DevOps delivery experience in government organizations.

Salary (Rate): £500 daily

City: Birmingham

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

About AWS Platform DevOps Engineer (SC & NPPV3) 6-month Contract Birmingham (Hybrid) £450-£500/day Outside IR35

We are seeking an AWS DevOps Platform Engineer for a contract position based in Birmingham.The role requires travel to Birmingham 2-3 days a week and an immediate start, ideally in July 2025. Active SC clearance (that has been used within the last 12 months) and NPPV3 (that's been used within the last 6 months) are required for this role. A Chance to Work with a Leading Digital Transformation Business Delivering Large-scale, Long-term IT Projects for the Public Sector.

Key skills & experience:

  • Good experience with AWS technologies (e.g., EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an AWS-based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
  • Provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as Vagrant.
  • Experience with DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
  • Strong scripting skills (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell, Perl, JAVA) and automation skills.
  • Thorough knowledge of Jenkins and pipeline using Groovy script.
  • Experience with Docker containers and Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.
  • Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g. Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, Node exporter).
  • Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.

Desired Skills and Experience:

  • Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on Digital or Technology projects at a government organisations.
  • Knowledge of Windows System Update Service and DFS Replication.
  • Linux system administration experience: building, hardening, and managing Linux operating systems.
  • MS Active Directory configuration and management.
  • Firewall and switch configuration and patch management.
  • Understanding of network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).
  • Experience with Windows Group Policy Objects and access/permissions control via GPO

Nice-to-have skills

  • AWS
  • DNS
  • Docker
  • EC2
  • FTP
  • Git
  • HTTP
  • HTTPS
  • JIRA
  • Java
  • Jenkins
  • Linux System Administration
  • Perl
  • Powershell
  • Python
  • S3
  • SMTP
  • SSH
  • Shell
  • Vagrant
  • Terraform
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • ServiceNow

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Work experience

DevOps Site Reliability (SRE)

Languages

English

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