AWS Cloud Engineer | DevOps for National Security (Hybrid)

Hackajob Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 61,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Dental insurance

Pension scheme

Cycle to work

Career Manager

Bonus scheme

Diversity & support groups

Job summary

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence in Leeds, UK, seeks an experienced AWS Developer to join its National Security team. The role emphasizes building systems on AWS, partnering with autonomous DevOps teams, and engaging with end users to design, deploy, and maintain cloud-based services.

The ideal candidate will bring substantial AWS expertise, Lambda-language skills, IaC proficiency, and a track record with CI/CD tools.

Qualifications

• Experienced AWS Developer with substantial AWS know-how and ability to solve complex business problems.
• Demonstrable expertise with AWS services (EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, KMS, ELB, SNS, SQS, IAM).
• Scripting ability with Shell, Bash or Python.
• Proficiency in at least one Lambda-compatible language.
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform).
• Experience with Git, Mercurial, or Perforce.
• Experience in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP).
• AWS Associate-level certification is a plus (Solution Architect, Developer, or DevOps).
• Experience with microservices and API design an advantage.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, ECS).
• Strong understanding of monitoring, observability and FinOps on AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bitbucket).
• Experience with automated testing frameworks.
• Working knowledge of Linux, networking, routing and firewalls.
• Security clearance required for this vacancy.

Responsibilities

• Build systems that support National Security customers' core mission capabilities.
• Work in empowered, autonomous DevOps teams.
• Engage with end users to design, develop, deploy and maintain applications on AWS.
• Identify new ways to solve problems and improve delivery.
• Collaborate across customer teams and internal engineering communities.
• Own responsibilities within a small team with support.
• Contribute to full delivery lifecycle.
• Help choose the right technologies for the job.
• Support the customer cloud adoption journey.

Skills

AWS

Python

Bash

Shell scripting

Linux

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Git

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Bamboo

TeamCity

Security

Tools

Git

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Bamboo

TeamCity

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Job description

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence in Leeds, UK, seeks an experienced AWS Developer to join its National Security team. The role emphasizes building systems on AWS, partnering with autonomous DevOps teams, and engaging with end users to design, deploy, and maintain cloud-based services.

The ideal candidate will bring substantial AWS expertise, Lambda-language skills, IaC proficiency, and a track record with CI/CD tools.