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Role Title: DevOps Engineer/AWS Platform Engineer

Role Location: Solihull, UK

Role Type: Permanent (Hybrid)

Must hold active Security Clearance.

Job Description:-

About the Role:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for creating the right environment for your

multidisciplinary team to succeed, helping them to self-organize whilst fostering a culture of

learning and transparency. You'll be a key part of one of the UK's biggest and most high-profile

digital transformation programs, a once-in-a-generation reform of government products and

services.

You'll keep pace with the introduction of relevant agile/lean tools and techniques and remove

obstacles and blockers that might hinder delivery. DevOps is a culture, approach, and set of

practices that apply lean process improvement and automation to enable a flow of working

software to its real users. This means looking across organizational functions of Development

and Operations that might previously have operated as separate silos.

Key Responsibilities:

 Develop high quality and maintainable code with automation first approach.

 Provide in-depth insight into DevOps issues and strong technical experience.

 Maintain an open-minded attitude and ability to rapidly adapt and learn in line with

DevOps culture.

 Facilitate workshops, meetings with a variety of stakeholders, show and tell, and drive

outcomes.

 Manage technology change, issues, and escalations (external and internal), taking

responsibility by owning them until they are mitigated or resolved.

 Lead by example, acting as a servant-leader, demonstrating the right behaviours,

dealing with conflict, and helping establish a team culture that allows for constructive

criticism.

Essential Skills and Experience:

 5+ years of experience with a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g., EC2, RDS,

ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain

an AWS-based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.

 Expertise in provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as

Vagrant.

 Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime AWS environment,

including automation experience with configuration management tools.

 Strong scripting skills (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell, Perl, JAVA) and automation

skills.

 Thorough knowledge of Jenkins and pipeline using Groovy script.

 Experience with Docker containers and Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.

 Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus,

and Node exporter).

 Ability to analyse and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application

deployment issues.

 Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change

management.

 Knowledge of Windows System Update Service and DFS Replication.

 Experience with Windows Group Policy Objects and access/permissions control via

GPO.

 Experience in automating and codifying the installation of software packages.

 Nexus security scanning and antivirus experience with ClamAV and MS defender.

Desired Skills and Experience:

 Linux system administration experience, including building, hardening, and managing

Linux operating systems.

 MS Active Directory configuration and management.

 Firewall and switch configuration and patch management.

 Understanding of network topologies and common network protocols and services

(DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).

 Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on digital or technology projects at a

leading consultancy, agency, or government organization.

 AWS or Azure certification, or willingness to attain the certification.

 Self-starter, comfortable working in both process-driven and ambiguous

environments.

 Experience and passion for working within Central Government and other sectors.

 Proven capability of working successfully with senior client stakeholders and end-

users, quickly building successful relationships, and establishing credibility.

 Passion for digital and technology, with the drive and determination to continually

learn new things and develop yourself and others.

 Strong written, presentation, and verbal communication skills, with a high degree of

attention to detail.

 Strong organizational skills, with the ability to work independently in a highly

collaborative, team-based environment.

 The right to live and work in the UK, be a British national (ideally not dual nationality)

and have lived in the UK to obtain SC clearance.