Remote AWS DevOps Engineer — Cloud-Native & Automation

Leidos; West of England; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

33 days Annual Leave

Flexible benefits

Flexible Working Scheme

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer for the LCST Programme. The role is remote with attendance at Leidos UK Bristol or customer sites as required, within the LCST team.

You will design, implement, and support secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using IaC, automation, and CloudWatch monitoring. As part of an Agile team, you will contribute to DevOps best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and security-focused operations across environments, collaborating with software, security, and

Qualifications

• Experience managing source code with GIT, PRs, branching strategies.
• Designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure including EC2, VPC, RDS, Load Balancers, IAM.
• IaC using Terraform and Ansible to provision secure cloud environments.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.
• Scripting with Bash, Python, and PowerShell to automate tasks.
• Containerisation with Docker and orchestration best practices.
• Knowledge of secrets management with Vault and IAM policies.
• AWS security best practices: encryption, patching, monitoring, least privilege.
• Experience with monitoring/logging (CloudWatch) and incident response.
• Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket to support Agile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate experience in managing source code with GIT, including pull requests, branching strategies and collaborative version control workflows
• Experience in designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure, including services like EC2, ECR, ECS, ECK, ASG, VPC, RDS, Load Balancers, Lambda, IAM, ports, R53 etc
• Familiarity in IAC using Terraform and Ansible to provision, configure, and maintain secure and scalable cloud environments
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, implementing automation for building, testing, and deploying applications across multiple environments
• Ability to write and maintain scripts and automation tools using Bash, Python, and PowerShell to enhance operational workflows and eliminate manual tasks
• Familiarity with containerisation using Docker and orchestration best practices, along with configuration management using Ansible.
• Knowledge of secrets management and access control using tools like Vault and IAM policies, ensuring secure handling of credentials and sensitive information
• Understanding of AWS security best practices, including encryption, patching, monitoring, least privilege access, and compliance requirements.
• Familiarity in implementing and managing backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data protection and business continuity] ,
• Ability to implement monitoring and logging solutions e.g., CloudWatch, to ensure system reliability, observability, and proactive incident response
• Comfortable working in Agile development teams, translating business requirements into technical solutions, and actively participating in sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand‑ups
• Familiarity to design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions that meet availability and performance objectives
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and implement effective mitigation strategies in complex environments
• Understanding of routing, traffic management, and load balancing, including configuration of NGINX and AWS-native tools for optimizing traffic flow.
• Familiarity with structured release and change management processes, including deployment governance, rollback strategies, and versioning control.
• Awareness of Java application environments and deployment considerations is a plus for supporting platform-wide consistency and integrations
• Proactive mindset with a continuous improvement attitude, regularly identifying opportunities to enhance delivery pipelines, infrastructure, and development practices
• Familiarity in designing and managing SNS topics for event-driven architectures, integrating notifications with Lambda, or external systems to support decoupled and scalable cloud workflows
• Experience using Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket to support Agile delivery, documentation, collaboration, and CI/CD pipeline management
• Working knowledge of Active Directory and ADFS for identity and access management, including group policy management, SSO, and integration with cloud authentication services

Skills

Git workflows

AWS cloud infrastructure

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting Bash/Python/PowerShell

Docker & orchestration

Security best practices

Cloud monitoring

Jenkins

Atlassian tools (Jira/Confluence/Bitb#

Tools

Git & PR workflows

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

Leidos is seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer for the LCST Programme. The role is remote with attendance at Leidos UK Bristol or customer sites as required, within the LCST team.

You will design, implement, and support secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using IaC, automation, and CloudWatch monitoring. As part of an Agile team, you will contribute to DevOps best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and security-focused operations across environments, collaborating with software, security, and