Role Overview
Contract Role - AWS DevOps Lead - Remote - 12 months initial - Inside IR35
Job Title: AWS DevOps Lead
Location: Remote (Remote within UK Travel as required)
Contract Type: Contract
Duration: 12 months initial
Lead Dev Ops team (of 4) in the early build phase of this project, moving a mission critical Department system from OPH to Cloud.
The project involves migration and modernisation of the application and DB components and re-platforming of the system to AWS on a refreshed, modernised platform with class-leading enterprise devops and operational tooling.
Lead the company engineering team in a multi-disciplinary organisational environment coordinating and prioritising the project build activities across the Department's wider Hybrid Cloud Services organisation.
The ability to communicate, take the lead on checkpoints and broker for the project priorities is key.
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD (GitOps) and Helm.
Develop and optimise infrastructure-as-code
Required skills
- MANDATORY - 5 Years UK RESIDENCY
- Strong experience with DevOps practices and automation-first delivery.
- Hands-on with GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Helm or similar CI/CD and GitOps tools.
- Solid understanding of containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
- Experience writing or maintaining Terraform infrastructure modules.
- Familiarity with build automation tools (eg, ANT, Maven, Gradle).
- Competence in Scripting (Bash, Python, or similar).
Nice to have skills
- Experience supporting modernisation projects involving migration from on-premise hosting to AWS Cloud.
- Awareness of operational tooling such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Flexera, Splunk.
- Exposure to WAS Liberty, and batch technologies such as PRO*C, KSH scripts.
- Exposure to Oracle enterprise database technologies, F5 Big-IP