AWS Devops Engineer (SC Cleared)

scrumconnect ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting in London delivers digital services to UK government departments, with a strong emphasis on user-centred design and agile delivery. The company has a track record of high-impact projects that improve public services and security.

The role involves running and evolving AWS and secure on-prem environments, leading Level 3 production support, maintaining CI/CD tooling, and coordinating with governance bodies to ensure reliable, compliant platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience managing AWS and secure on-prem environments to ensure high availability.
• Proficient with container orchestration and CI/CD tooling.
• Ability to implement security standards and governance in large-scale platforms.

Responsibilities

• Run, manage, and evolve AWS and secure on-prem environments with 24/7 on-call support.
• Lead Level 3 production and non-production environment maintenance.
• Enhance CI/CD tooling and self-service pipelines.
• Support platform deployments and incident/change management.

Tools

AWS

EKS

RDS

Aurora

ElastiCache

Kafka

IAM

Docker

Kubernetes

Rancher

Jenkins

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Dynatrace

Vault

Keycloak

Terraform

ServiceNow

Trivy

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka Replication

Bash

Python

Groovy

Lambda

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, 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 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.