Summary: The DevOps Engineer (AWS) role in Hammersmith, London, focuses on maintaining and implementing best practices for infrastructure and security within a healthcare or pharmaceutical context. Key responsibilities include managing system backups, monitoring security applications, and ensuring compliance with change control and disaster recovery policies. The position requires collaboration with development teams to provision AWS infrastructure and manage application access controls. Candidates should have relevant experience and a degree in Information Technology is preferred but not essential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Defining and maintaining existing policies and procedures to ensure alignment with best practices.
• Ensuring new processes are implemented correctly through training and education.
• Maintain and create infrastructure documentation.
• Ensuring system backups are monitored/maintained and tested regularly.
• Monitor and maintain threat detection applications.
• Develop and monitor a hardware security patching process on a monthly cycle.
• Manage the software and operating system life cycle for all products implemented within the business.
• Monitor the current hardware and software estate for timely upgrades of end-of-life products.
• Provisioning of infrastructure components within the AWS cloud environment.
• Maintain the asset register for all implemented hardware.
• Management of the change control system for applications.
• Implementation of system monitoring to ensure healthy environments.
• Activate early warning notifications for proactive incident resolution.
• Regular system log monitoring to comply with application requirements.
• Monitor and act upon Vantage application logs for potential system or security issues.
• Manage Vantage users, including activation, creation, and retirement tasks.
• Maintain application access control for external products (Jira/GitHub).
• Manage the Research data load process in AWS Redshift.
• Distribute monthly reports created by the Product Team analysts.
• Manage the annual Vantage penetration test and remediation tasks.
• Implement disaster recovery in AWS and conduct regular testing.
• Ensure two-factor authentication is implemented where possible.
• Implement and monitor a Web Application Firewall for security.
• Maintain access control records for all data held within the business unit.
• Management and onboarding of new services.
• Release management support.

Key Skills:

• Degree level education, ideally in Information Technology (not essential).
• Relevant experience in a similar role (2-3 years minimum).
• Experience or interest in the healthcare and/or pharmaceutical sector.
• Proficiency in AWS cloud services.
• Knowledge of security practices and monitoring tools.
• Experience with infrastructure documentation and change control systems.
• Ability to manage user access and application controls.
• Strong problem-solving skills and proactive incident management.

Salary (Rate): £560

City: Hammersmith

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT