AWS DevOps Engineer - Remote, SC Cleared

TXP; Greater London; Remote; GBP 61,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

TXP is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join a Central Government digital transformation programme. The role focuses on AWS cloud engineering, automation, and modern agile delivery to underpin critical public services.

The candidate will design and optimise infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, and support Java-based microservices with strong emphasis on security, monitoring and operational resilience.

Qualifications

• Proven DevOps Engineer with large-scale digital transformation experience.
• Central Government/public sector experience is highly preferred.
• Extensive hands-on AWS experience and infrastructure automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain infrastructure across AWS environments.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable software delivery.
• Automate provisioning, configuration and deployment of infrastructure.
• Support Java-based applications and microservices.
• Implement monitoring, alerting and logging for platform reliability.
• Ensure security, compliance and operational resilience.
• Troubleshoot issues across development and production environments.
• Promote DevOps best practices and continuous improvement.
• Support disaster recovery, backup and business continuity.
• Collaborate with Architects, Developers, Security and Delivery teams.

Skills

AWS cloud engineering

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Linux administration

Scripting (Bash/Python)

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

TXP is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join a Central Government digital transformation programme. The role focuses on AWS cloud engineering, automation, and modern agile delivery to underpin critical public services.

The candidate will design and optimise infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, and support Java-based microservices with strong emphasis on security, monitoring and operational resilience.