Lead DevOps Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes & Terraform

Methods Business and Digital Technology; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LinkedIn Learning

Wellness program

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

Discretionary bonus

Life Assurance

Travel Insurance

Job summary

Methods is a leading UK IT services consultancy delivering public sector transformation. The role focuses on AWS platform engineering, Kubernetes on ECS/EKS, and DevSecOps practices. You will lead by example, mentor engineers and own services across their lifecycle while shaping scalable identity platforms.

Daily work centers on designing, maintaining, and improving AWS hosted systems, with Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI, and a strong emphasis on testing, observability, and secure coding practices.

Qualifications

• Lead Engineers are expected to own services throughout their lifecycle and mentor engineers.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience across ECS/EKS/EC2/IAM etc.
• Proven ability to design, implement and maintain Terraform modules and Helm charts.
• Experience with Kubernetes RBAC, Helm templating and CI/CD pipelines in GitLab.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering efforts on AWS-based identity platform running on Kubernetes and ECS.
• Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions across the team.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and Helm charts for multi-environment deployments.
• Manage deployments and troubleshoot production issues in ECS/EKS environments.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Security teams to ensure reliable delivery.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

ECS

EKS

Helm

GitLab CI

CI/CD

Docker

Istio

Kong API Gateway

RBAC

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

Prometheus

Grafana

Dynatrace

Python

Node.js

JMeter

k6

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Go

Job description

Methods is a leading UK IT services consultancy delivering public sector transformation. The role focuses on AWS platform engineering, Kubernetes on ECS/EKS, and DevSecOps practices. You will lead by example, mentor engineers and own services across their lifecycle while shaping scalable identity platforms.

Daily work centers on designing, maintaining, and improving AWS hosted systems, with Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI, and a strong emphasis on testing, observability, and secure coding practices.