Role: DevOps Engineer
Rate: £65k - £70k + 5% Pension
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Remote (with occasional visits to client sites)
Clearance: BPSS
Must have 2-5 years of Government Experience
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and manage infrastructure in AWS using IaC (Terraform preferred)
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar)
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK
Manage containerised services using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
Collaborate with developers, security, and platform teams to improve deployment efficiency and reliability
Ensure cloud architecture aligns with best practices in scalability, availability, and cost optimisation
Drive automation and eliminate manual toil through Scripting and tooling
Maintain robust security, including IAM, VPC configurations, and secrets management
Required Skills \& Experience
Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFormation/Terraform)
Solid understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD pipeline design
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
CI/CD (ideally GitLab)
Docker
Containers (Kubernetes) - but not managing Kubernetes, using it as an app development
Proficient in Scripting (Bash, Python, or similar)
Strong understanding of Linux system administration
Familiarity with Git-based workflows and version control best practices