AWS Devops Engineer

scrumconnect ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting is seeking a Platform/DevOps Engineer to support and maintain AWS and secure on‑premise environments. Under the guidance of senior engineers, you will contribute to day‑to‑day operations, automation, and support activities while building toward autonomy.

The role requires 4–5 years of DevOps/Platform Engineering experience, AWS expertise (EKS, RDS, Aurora, etc.), and a clearance eligibility.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years of experience in DevOps/Platform Engineering or similar infrastructure role.
• Experience with AWS and on-premises environments.
• SC Clearance/Eligibility required.
• Ability to work under guidance and progress toward independent ownership.

Responsibilities

• Support running and day-to-day maintenance of AWS and secure on‑premise environments to help ensure availability.
• Contribute to Level 3 production and non-production support, including 24/7 on-call rotations.
• Follow and support security standards and release governance.
• Assist in building and maintaining infrastructure components (Kafka, databases like Aurora/RDS/Redis, identity management like Keycloak, caching).
• Support and help maintain CI/CD tooling and self-service pipelines for tenant teams.
• Assist in identifying technical debt and escalating as needed.
• Support automation, observability, and testing across platform components.
• Collaborate with platform/infrastructure teams to support scalable, resilient services.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure AWS

Container orchestration Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling Jenkins

Monitoring observability Prometheus

Security and IAM Keycloak

IaC Terraform

Scripting Bash Python

DevOps tooling ServiceNow

Kafka streaming

PostgreSQL Redis

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Rancher

Jenkins

Helm

ServiceNow

Trivy

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Dynatrace

HashiCorp Vault

Keycloak

Kafka

RDS Aurora

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

About Scrumconnect Consulting

Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. With a strong commitment to user-centred design and agile delivery, we continue to deliver innovative digital services that matter.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Platform/DevOps Engineer (SFIA Level 3 - Apply) with 4-5 years of experience to support and maintain our AWS and secure on‑premise environments. You will work under the guidance of senior engineers, contributing to day‑to‑day operations, automation, and support activities, while building toward greater autonomy and ownership.

Preferred Tech Stack Expertise

• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Kafka, IAM)
• Secure Hosting: Exposure to air-gapped or government-secure environments (desirable)
• Container & Cluster Management: Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Jenkins, Helm
• Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Dynatrace
• Secrets & Identity Management: HashiCorp Vault, Keycloak
• CI/CD & DevOps Tooling: Jenkins, Git, ServiceNow, Trivy, Terraform
• Streaming & Messaging: Apache Kafka (foundational knowledge)
• Data Layers: PostgreSQL, Redis, RDLs
• Automation: IaC, pipeline build automation
• Scripting: Bash, Python, Groovy

Responsibilities

• Support the running and day‑to‑day maintenance of the AWS and secure on‑premise environments to help ensure availability.
• Contribute to Level 3 (L3) production support and non‑production environment maintenance, participating in 24/7 on‑call support rotas.
• Follow and support security standards and the change and release governance model.
• Assist in building and maintaining infrastructure components such as event streaming (Kafka), databases (Aurora, RDS, Redis), identity management (Keycloak), and caching layers, under senior guidance.
• Support and help maintain CI/CD tooling and self‑service developer pipelines for tenant teams.
• Assist in identifying and addressing technical debt, escalating to senior engineers or governance bodies where needed.
• Support efforts to increase automation, observability, and testing coverage across platform components.
• Work with internal/external platform and infrastructure teams to support scalable and resilient services, aligned with the product roadmap.
• Assist with platform deployments, incident/problem/change management, and continual service improvement activities (ITIL‑aligned).
• Use ServiceNow (or its successor) to log and track changes, incidents, requests, and problem records.
• Assist with replication services and secure data flows (Impex, Threat, Kafka replication) under supervision.

Experience

• 4-5 years of experience in a DevOps/Platform Engineering or similar infrastructure role.
• Comfortable working within established processes and escalating appropriately, while developing toward more independent ownership of tasks.
• SC Clearance/Eligibility Required

Diversity & Inclusion

At Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe that diversity drives innovation. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where every individual is respected, valued, and supported. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences, and we actively encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, underrepresented communities, and those seeking flexible working arrangements.