DevOps Engineer - Local Authority

Spinwell Global; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh for a 12-month contract to drive cloud-native solutions. Candidates should have strong AWS development skills or database design expertise. The role emphasizes collaboration, agile methodologies, and developing shared constructs to support various teams. Ideal applicants will demonstrate experience with serverless architectures and commitment to quality software delivery. The position offers a hybrid working arrangement, blending onsite collaboration as required.

Qualifications

• Solid commercial experience in AWS development.
• Background in database design and administration.
• Experience in Agile delivery models such as Scrum or Kanban.

Responsibilities

• Accelerate the client’s move to cloud-native solutions.
• Develop shared CDK constructs for database architecture.
• Ensure excellent collaboration and communication with stakeholders.

Skills

AWS IAM

S3

EC2

Serverless (Lambda)

Typescript

CDK

SQL

RDS

PostgreSQL

CloudWatch

Grafana

Kibana

Job description

Role: DevOps Engineer
Contract Length: 12 Months with possible extension.
Location: Hybrid/Edinburgh - Onsite collaboration when required depending on project/team requirements
IR35: Outside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £552.75 per day
Security Clearance: BPSS

Responsibilities

A DevOps Engineer with solid commercial AWS development experience is required to accelerate the client’s move from legacy on‑prem databases to new cloud‑native solutions. This might be a developer with strong database design and administration skills, or vice‑versa. The focus is developing shared CDK constructs to be consumed by multiple development teams across the organisation for new and migrated databases. The constructs will embody practical standards for database architecture and quality, allowing centralised assurance.

Skills and Experience

• AWS IAM, S3, EC2
• Serverless (Lambda)
• Typescript (or modern JavaScript)
• CDK and AWS Development tools including Cloud Formation
• SQL
• RDS and PostgreSQL
• Monitoring solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana, Kibana)

• Making excellent quality software with other people.
• Working with business stakeholders, to understand the context and to focus on delivering value.
• Design and implementation of solutions using a service‑based and serverless architecture.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and teamwork skills
• Experience working in the Agile delivery models – such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.
• Cloud database monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes
• Defining infrastructure‑as‑code
• Testing of disaster recovery procedures
• Data replication and high‑availability technology

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