AWS DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared)
Posted Today by Montash
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The AWS DevOps Engineer role involves supporting a secure cloud platform for national law enforcement applications within a public-sector technology program. The position requires hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, and operational support in regulated environments. The successful candidate will collaborate with various teams to ensure the platform's security, reliability, and scalability. This is a 12-month contract role requiring SC clearance and involves remote work with monthly travel to London.
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: AWS 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