DevOps Engineer (AWS) - Active SC
Posted Today by Stealth IT Consulting
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The DevOps Engineer (AWS) role involves designing and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and managing containerized applications. The position requires active SC clearance and focuses on collaboration with various teams to implement security best practices and automate processes. The role is fully remote and spans a duration of 12 months. The candidate must possess extensive experience with AWS services and related technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Develop, manage, and optimise CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery.
- Deploy and manage containerised applications using Kubernetes.
- Support and administer Kafka messaging platforms, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Monitor production environments, troubleshoot incidents, and implement proactive improvements.
- Collaborate closely with developers, architects, testers, and security teams.
- Implement security best practices across cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Automate operational processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
- Participate in sprint planning, technical discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
- Experience supporting and managing Apache Kafka.
- Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar.
- Strong Scripting skills using Bash or Python.
- Experience with Docker and container technologies.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or CloudWatch.
- Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
Salary (Rate): £400 Inside
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: DevOps Engineer (AWS)
Rate: £400 Inside
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Remote
Clearance: Active SC
Stages: 1 Stage
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Develop, manage, and optimise CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery.
- Deploy and manage containerised applications using Kubernetes.
- Support and administer Kafka messaging platforms, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Monitor production environments, troubleshoot incidents, and implement proactive improvements.
- Collaborate closely with developers, architects, testers, and security teams.
- Implement security best practices across cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Automate operational processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
- Participate in sprint planning, technical discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Extensive experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
- Experience supporting and managing Apache Kafka.
- Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar.
- Strong Scripting skills using Bash or Python.
- Experience with Docker and container technologies.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or CloudWatch.
- Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
Clearance
Active SC Clearance is essential for this role.