AWS DevOps Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by Montash
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of DevOps Engineer involves supporting and maintaining a secure cloud platform for national law enforcement applications within a public-sector technology programme. The position requires hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, and containerisation, along with collaboration with engineering and support teams to ensure service reliability and security. The successful candidate will also engage in routine monitoring and troubleshooting activities while contributing to technical documentation and peer reviews. This is a 12-month contract role with inside IR35 status and requires SC clearance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build, maintain and support cloud platform services across a secure AWS environment
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Write scripts and automation using tools such as Python, Bash and Ansible
- Build, configure and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and related tooling
- Support developers with platform usage, deployment patterns and pipeline configuration
- Work with Docker and Kubernetes to support containerised application deployments
- Provide technical support for platform use, configuration issues and production readiness
- Support routine monitoring, troubleshooting and service quality activities
- Ensure platform services meet security, compliance and operational standards
- Maintain technical documentation and contribute to peer reviews
- Participate in occasional out-of-hours work and future on-call support where required
Key Skills:
- 3 to 5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer or similar
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform
- Experience with Git, GitLab and CI/CD pipeline automation
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles, automation and deployment practices
- Scripting experience using tools such as Python, Bash or Ansible
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
- Understanding of cloud security, compliance and infrastructure best practices
- Experience troubleshooting platform, deployment and configuration issues
- Strong communication, documentation and problem-solving skills
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Clearance: SC Clearance required
Location: UK, Remote (with monthly travel to the client’s London office)
Contract Length: 12 months (with scope to extend)
IR35: Inside
Interview Process: 1 Stage, MS Teams
We are supporting a large, mission-critical public-sector technology programme in hiring a DevOps Engineer to support and maintain a secure cloud platform used for national law enforcement applications. This role sits within a platform engineering environment, supporting cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerised services and operational tooling. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, support and delivery teams to ensure services are secure, reliable, scalable and production ready. This role suits a hands-on DevOps Engineer with experience across AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, scripting, containerisation and operational support within secure or regulated environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, maintain and support cloud platform services across a secure AWS environment
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Write scripts and automation using tools such as Python, Bash and Ansible
- Build, configure and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and related tooling
- Support developers with platform usage, deployment patterns and pipeline configuration
- Work with Docker and Kubernetes to support containerised application deployments
- Provide technical support for platform use, configuration issues and production readiness
- Support routine monitoring, troubleshooting and service quality activities
- Ensure platform services meet security, compliance and operational standards
- Maintain technical documentation and contribute to peer reviews
- Participate in occasional out-of-hours work and future on-call support where required
Essential Skills
- 3 to 5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer or similar
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform
- Experience with Git, GitLab and CI/CD pipeline automation
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles, automation and deployment practices
- Scripting experience using tools such as Python, Bash or Ansible
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
- Understanding of cloud security, compliance and infrastructure best practices
- Experience troubleshooting platform, deployment and configuration issues
- Strong communication, documentation and problem-solving skills
Desirable Skills
- Experience with AWS Control Tower, Landing Zones, Account Factory for Terraform, Account Factory or AWS Landing Zone Accelerator
- Experience with AWS Network Firewall, WAF, Suricata, Fortinet or forward / reverse proxy solutions
- Experience with Ansible, Salt or Puppet
- GitLab CI and Artifactory administration, ideally self-hosted
- Exposure to AWS data services such as Glue, Athena, Lake Formation or QuickSight
- Exposure to Entra ID or Microsoft Active Directory
- Experience with GitLab Runners
- Experience with AWS Grafana and Prometheus
- Experience working in secure public-sector or regulated environments
- Ability to work independently and lead technical discussions where required