AWS Devops Engineer (SC Cleared)

Scrumconnect Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting, based in London, is seeking an experienced DevOps/Cloud Engineer to manage AWS and secure on-premise environments, ensuring high availability and compliance with security standards. You will contribute to the change and release governance model and collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable services.

The role focuses on automation, CI/CD tooling, and proactive debt management, with emphasis on data-driven decisions and secure hosting

Qualifications

• Experience managing cloud and on-prem environments for high security and regulated contexts.
• Strong understanding of security standards and governance models.
• Proficiency in building and maintaining CI/CD tooling and developer pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Run, manage, and evolve AWS and secure on-premise environments for availability.
• Lead Level 3 production support with 24/7 on-call coverage.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure

Secure Hosting

Automation

Scripting

Tools

AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Kafka, IAM)

HashiCorp Vault

Keycloak

Kafka

Job description

London, United Kingdom | Posted on 21/08/2026

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, and more to deliver innovative digital services that matter

Preferred Tech Stack Expertise

Cloud Infrastructure : AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Kafka, IAM)

Secure Hosting : Experience working with air-gapped or government-secure environments

Secrets & Identity Management : HashiCorp Vault, Keycloak

Automation : IaC, pipeline build automation, event relay tooling

Scripting : Bash, Python, Groovy, Lambda functions

Responsibilities

Run, manage, and continuously evolve the AWS and secure on-premise environments to ensure availability .

Lead Level 3 (L3) production support and non-production environment maintenance, including 24/7 on-call support .

Ensure all services are compliant with security standards and support the change and release governance model .

Build and maintain infrastructure components like event streaming (Kafka), databases (Aurora, RDS, Redis), identity management (Keycloak), and caching layers.

Enhance and maintain CI/CD tooling and self-service developer pipelines for tenant teams.

Proactively manage and resolve tech debt by working with central governance bodies and ensure visibility to the board.

Increase automation, observability, and testing coverage across the platform components while enabling data-driven decision-making.

Align delivery with the product roadmap, collaborating with internal/external platform and infrastructure teams to support scalable and resilient services.

Support critical national infrastructure tasks including platform deployments, incident/problem/change management, and continual service improvement (ITIL-aligned).

Use and integrate ServiceNow (or its successor) to track and manage changes, incidents, requests, and problem records.

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.