AWS DevOps Engineer ( Active SC Required)

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to provide technical support and leadership in cloud infrastructure solutions. The role involves optimizing development processes, ensuring application deployment, and managing capacity and availability in a secure environment. Candidates must have recent experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS, among other technologies.

Qualifications

• Must have recent active experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, and AWS (within the last 2 years).
• Experience in automating application deployment and configuration management.
• Strong AWS knowledge including EC2, EKS, RDS, Aurora.

Responsibilities

• Implementing standards, identifying capacity issues, and initiating remedial actions.
• Collaborating on design, coding, testing, and documenting programs/scripts.
• Designing solutions with embedded security controls to mitigate threats.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Jenkins

AWS

Automation

Containerization

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring

Networking

Tools

Docker

ELK

Prometheus

Grafana

RedHat

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Job description

Level of Clearance: Active SC.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for providing technical support and leadership in creating and delivering technology solutions that meet customer business needs.

A cloud DevOps engineer manages the development and operational aspects of a company's cloud infrastructure, working with developers to ensure applications are properly deployed and operated in a cloud environment.

Experience Required

• Conduct investigations and tests of complex software systems to improve performance or resolve issues.
• Review the completion and implementation of technical products to ensure success and timeliness.
• Evaluate vendor capabilities for project requirements.
• Provide leadership and guidance to less experienced team members.
• Offer technical consultation to organizations and interact with senior customer personnel and management.
• Provide first-level support to customers.

Must have recent active experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, and AWS (within the last 2 years).

• Experience in automating application deployment and configuration management.
• Knowledge of automation/configuration management tools like RedHat, Puppet, Chef, Ansible.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of internet communication protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP.
• Experience deploying Continuous Integration solutions.
• Awareness of web application security considerations.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Strong AWS knowledge including EC2, EKS, RDS, Aurora, networking, and cost management.

Responsibilities include:

• Availability and capacity management: Implementing standards, identifying capacity issues, and initiating remedial actions.
• Development process optimization: Identifying opportunities and driving solutions.
• Information security: Designing solutions with embedded security controls to mitigate threats.
• Applying modern standards: Guiding others in their use.
• Programming and build: Collaborating on design, coding, testing, and documenting programs/scripts of medium-high complexity.
• Prototyping: Engaging in team-based prototyping, establishing design patterns, and testing.
• Service support: Demonstrating understanding of service support processes.
• Systems design and integration: Designing systems with medium risk/impact, selecting appropriate standards, and coordinating build and testing activities.
• User focus: Collaborating with user researchers, representing users, and prioritizing user needs in design and development.