AWS Devops Engineer (SC Cleared)

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in London seeks a Permanent IT/DevOps professional to manage AWS cloud environments and on-prem secure hosting. You will drive availability, automation, and governance across platforms.

Required 5+ years of experience, strong knowledge of Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Vault/Keycloak, and CI/CD tooling. You will collaborate with diverse teams to deliver resilient services for critical national infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in IT/DevOps roles focusing on cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Experience with secure hosting in sensitive/government settings.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Run and evolve AWS and secure on‑premise environments for high availability.
• Lead L3 production support and 24/7 on‑call activities.
• Ensure security standards and governance compliance across services.
• Build/maintain components like Kafka, Aurora, Redis, Keycloak, and caches.
• Enhance CI/CD tooling and self‑service pipelines for tenant teams.
• Proactively manage tech debt and improve observability and testing.
• Align delivery with roadmap and support scalable, resilient services.
• Support platform deployments, incidents, problems, and ITIL processes.
• Integrate ServiceNow for change/incident/problem tracking.

Skills

5+ years IT/DevOps experience

Security-minded

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Dynatrace

Vault

Keycloak

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

ServiceNow

Bash

Python

Groovy

Lambda

Job description

Job Information

• Date Opened 21/08/2026
• Job Type Permanent
• Industry IT Services
• Work Experience 5+ years
• Salary £65k - £70k
• City London
• Province Greater London
• Country United Kingdom
• Postal Code EC1A

Job Description

About the company: the company 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
• 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 (including Kafka Replication)
• Data Layers: PostgreSQL, Redis, RDLs
• 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.
• Support replication services, match engines, secure data flows (Impex, Threat, Kafka replication)

Diversity & Inclusion

At the company, 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.