Associate DevOps Engineer

Scottish Government; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A governmental organization in the United Kingdom is looking for an Associate DevOps Engineer to support the transformation and enhancement of its digital services. The role involves managing AWS infrastructures, leveraging modern technologies like Kubernetes and serverless architectures, and improving security practices. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to critical public services while developing innovative cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and cloud security controls.
• Understanding of Kubernetes and serverless technologies.
• Ability to work with GitOps and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support the cloud platform and infrastructure.
• Enhance the security of the platform using modern AWS features.
• Collaborate on streamlining microservice product delivery.

Skills

Kubernetes (EKS, ECR)

AWS (Lambda, Fargate)

GitOps

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud security practices

Job description

Do you want to help transform the way Scottish Government uses cloud technologies to enable the delivery of better Digital Services to serve the people of Scotland?

Disclosure Scotland (DS) provides criminal record checking services to individuals and organisations to support safer recruitment and protect vulnerable groups. We provide a key societal service, both protecting vulnerable citizens and assisting other citizens to safely get back to work and contribute to society. We are currently on a programme to develop and continuously improve services based on user needs. This is an opportunity to help transform the way the government provides this critical public service to safeguard children and vulnerable adults.

We’re on a journey with our technology, having recently successfully transformed the business onto a modern digital platform. We now have to further explore the benefits that our technologies can bring. Being the first UK government organisation to successfully host and secure Police data in The Cloud (AWS) we are seeking to further enhance the security of our platform by taking advantage of modern AWS features and practices.

As an Associate DevOps Engineer, you will be part of that journey as we invest in Kubernetes (EKS, ECR), serverless (Lambda, Fargate), advanced system messaging (SNS, SQS, Kafka) and the best in UK cloud security controls. You will also be with us as we adopt modern working concepts such as GitOps, Immutable Infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code as we seek to streamline the delivery of our microservice products into the cloud. This role sits within the DS Digital Platform Team, managing, maintaining, and supporting the platform and infrastructure on which DS systems operate.