AWS DevOps Engineer

Leidos Innovations UK Ltd; West of England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Innovations UK Ltd seeks an experienced DevOps/SRE professional to join a fast-moving cloud-focused team in the United Kingdom. You will manage source control with Git, design AWS infrastructure, and implement IaC with Terraform and Ansible, while building robust CI/CD pipelines and automation scripts.

You will work across Linux/Windows, containerisation with Docker, and secure operations including Vault secrets management and IAM policies, ensuring high availability and security

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with multiple programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Red Hat OS administration.
• Cloud experience with AWS/Azure or other providers.
• Red Hat and Windows admin experience.
• Containerised solution experience.
• IAC using Terraform.
• App config using Ansible or Puppet.
• CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins/Azure DevOps/Bamboo.
• Any automation.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate experience in managing source code with GIT, including PRs and branching workflows.
• Design and manage AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, ECR, ECS, VPC, RDS, Load Balancers, Lambda, IAM).
• Familiarity with IaC using Terraform and Ansible for secure, scalable environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and automated testing/deployments.
• Write and maintain scripts in Bash, Python, and PowerShell to automate tasks.
• Containerisation with Docker and config management with Ansible.
• Secrets management with Vault and IAM policies for secure access.
• Understand AWS security best practices (encryption, patching, least privilege).
• Implement backup, recovery, and DR strategies.

Skills

AWS

Git

Terraform

Ansible

Bash

Python

PowerShell

CI/CD

Docker

Secrets management

AWS security

Disaster recovery

Monitoring

NGINX

Atlassian tools

Identity management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Docker

CloudWatch

NGINX

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Active Directory

ADFS

Puppet

Job description

This role also includes hands-on work with automated testing, deployments, and infrastructure monitoring—alongside participation in Agile ceremonies, risk mitigation activities, and collaborative solution design. Cross-functional flexibility across systems engineering, software development, testing, and security is highly valued.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate experience in managing source code with GIT, including pull requests, branching strategies and collaborative version control workflows

• Experience in designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure, including services like EC2, ECR, ECS, ECK, ASG, VPC, RDS, Load Balancers, Lambda, IAM, ports, R53 etc

• Familiarity in IAC using Terraform and Ansible to provision, configure, and maintain secure and scalable cloud environments

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, implementing automation for building, testing, and deploying applications across multiple environments

• Ability to write and maintain scripts and automation tools using Bash, Python, and PowerShell to enhance operational workflows and eliminate manual tasks

• Familiarity with containerisation using Docker and orchestration best practices, along with configuration management using Ansible.

• Knowledge of secrets management and access control using tools like Vault and IAM policies, ensuring secure handling of credentials and sensitive information

• Understanding of AWS security best practices, including encryption, patching, monitoring, least privilege access, and compliance requirements.

• Familiarity in implementing and managing backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data protection and business continuity]

• Ability to implement monitoring and logging solutions e.g., CloudWatch, to ensure system reliability, observability, and proactive incident response

• Comfortable working in Agile development teams, translating business requirements into technical solutions, and actively participating in sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups

• Familiarity to design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions that meet availability and performance objectives

• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and implement effective mitigation strategies in complex environments

• Understanding of routing, traffic management, and load balancing, including configuration of NGINX and AWS-native tools for optimizing traffic flow.

• Familiarity with structured release and change management processes, including deployment governance, rollback strategies, and versioning control.

• Awareness of Java application environments and deployment considerations is a plus for supporting platform-wide consistency and integrations

• Proactive mindset with a continuous improvement attitude, regularly identifying opportunities to enhance delivery pipelines, infrastructure, and development practices

• Familiarity in designing and managing SNS topics for event-driven architectures, integrating notifications with Lambda, or external systems to support decoupled and scalable cloud workflows

• Experience using Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket to support Agile delivery, documentation, collaboration, and CI/CD pipeline management

• Working knowledge of Active Directory and ADFS for identity and access management, including group policy management, SSO, and integration with cloud authentication services

Application Requirements:

• Hands-on experience:

  • in any programming language e.g. python, bash, powershell, etc

  • in Redhat OS

  • in AWS OR Azure OR any other cloud provider

  • as Redhat and windows Admin

  • in containerised solution

  • in supporting application troubleshooting

  • IAC – terraform

  • App config - ansible or any other like puppet

  • CI/CD pipeline like Jenkins or Azure devops or bamboo, etc

  • Any Automation

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or equivalent certification

• Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation

• Experience with Ansible for configuration management

• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash)

• ITIL Foundation Certification or experience with ITIL-based environments

Clearance Requirements:

• BPSS pre-screening required to start

• Clearance for Role SC

• Must be a UK Citizen and based in UK for the duration

• Must have, or be able to obtain, a UK SC Clearance