Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Description

The team shares responsibility for development and operations, with a focus on people, process and tools, and a unified view of customer and user needs.

You will work in a multi-disciplinary team alongside development, QA, IT operations, information security and UCD, all aiming to apply DevOps best practice.

The company works across public and private sectors on product design, engineering, cloud migration, programme delivery and service operations.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain improvements that raise efficiency and software quality and shorten delivery times.
• Turn business requirements into technical implementations.
• Act as a business subject matter expert, helping the DevOps team understand what the business needs.
• Share business knowledge across the team so the DevOps work fits real needs.
• Communicate with stakeholders and negotiate with them so the service runs well and effort goes where it matters.

Requirements

• 5+ years working as a DevOps engineer.
• Broad experience with DevOps tooling, containers and containerisation.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and Helm.
• Understanding of container orchestration with Kubernetes and package management with Helm.
• Experience with cloud platforms, specifically AWS, and familiarity with cloud best practice and emerging technologies.
• Experience with several database ecosystems, along with their architecture and integration.
• Experience with monitoring tools to keep systems reliable and performing well.
• Understanding of GitOps principles.
• Experience setting up and maintaining pipelines, including with Jenkins.
• Experience managing database schema changes.
• Good to have: GitLab CI/CD, Bash scripting, ArgoCD, Java (Spring), Kafka and Liquibase.

Conditions

Hybrid working with some flexibility.

Willingness to travel is required.

You must have the right to work in the UK.

You must be able to obtain UK security clearance.

The company welcomes applications from all backgrounds and offers guaranteed interviews to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria, if they opt in.

Benefits

• 25 days' holiday.
• Private medical healthcare through Vitality.
• Pension contribution and life assurance.
• Support for professional certifications as part of learning and development.
• Retail discounts covering restaurants, supermarkets, travel, leisure and health and well-being services.
• Access to employee resource groups for connecting, learning and mutual support.