Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS, CI/CD & CDK (Hybrid, Gov)

Sellick Partnership; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Sellick Partnership is recruiting a DevOps Engineer for a major UK Government programme based in Newcastle upon Tyne. The 6-month contract offers hybrid working with 3 days onsite and 2 days from home, with a strong likelihood of extension depending on project needs.

You will have strong experience across AWS, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code, particularly AWS CDK, and you should be comfortable working in secure or highly regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Proven DevOps experience in AWS and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong automation and scripting capabilities.
• Familiarity with secure or regulated environments is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and improve cloud infrastructure within AWS.
• Develop, maintain and optimise automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and manage Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK.
• Support deployment and operation of cloud-based applications and services.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployment.
• Collaborate with Software and Platform engineering teams.
• Troubleshoot deployment and platform issues.
• Support monitoring and overall platform reliability.
• Implement DevOps and security best practices.
• Contribute to process improvements across development and deployment.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Automation

Security best practices

Tools

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

Sellick Partnership is recruiting a DevOps Engineer for a major UK Government programme based in Newcastle upon Tyne. The 6-month contract offers hybrid working with 3 days onsite and 2 days from home, with a strong likelihood of extension depending on project needs.

You will have strong experience across AWS, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code, particularly AWS CDK, and you should be comfortable working in secure or highly regulated environments.