Senior DevOps Engineer SC Cleared or SC Eligible

Avance Consulting; Batley; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their agile team. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in AWS to build and maintain secure, scalable applications. You'll implement best practices for cloud security and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and GitLab CI. Your deep knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and monitoring systems will be critical in optimizing performance and reliability. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and efficiency in cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud and security services.
• Expertise in CI/CD tools and containerization technologies.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage scalable applications on AWS.
• Design and manage DevOps tools for automation and efficiency.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD Pipelines

Monitoring and Alerting

Cloud Networking

Security Best Practices

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

ELK Stack

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will work in an agile multidisciplinary team that develop & builds applications that are consumed by wider customers.

You will build, maintain, upgrade and support Live services hosted on AWS platform.

You will be working across one or more projects, liaising with other technical teams, with the autonomy to identify and build the right solution to meet user needs.

You will have a deep knowledge and expertise of cloud technologies, mainly around infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, alerting and cloud networking.

You will have a deep understanding of information security, designing solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.

Your responsibilities:

Implement and manage highly available, scalable & secure applications hosted on cloud platforms (AWS).

Implement AWS best practices to safeguard data, applications, and systems hosted on cloud platform.

Design, implement, and manage various DevOps tools and technologies, including CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitLab CI), configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet), and containerization technologies (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes).

Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations to improve reliability and efficiency.

Writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform,

Ansible to manage and provision infrastructure through code, ensuring consistency and repeatability.

Identifying and automating applications efficiency, increase reliability and reduce repetitive manual tasks.

Work with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless collaboration and effective communication

Troubleshoot complex system issues, analyse data, and identify areas for improvement.

Document and refine DevOps practices, including version control, code deployment, and configuration management.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

Hands-on experience, as a Sr DevOps, on AWS Cloud with deep understanding of AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance services.

Experience in designing and implementing solutions using AWS Serverless services (ECS Fargate, Lambda, SNS, SQS, API gateway etc)

Solid understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP , DNS, Loadbalancer and firewalls, SSL/TLS

Experience in designing and implementing containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).

Expertise in build, deploy and manage solutions using a variety of storage services from AWS.

Experience with infrastructure provisioning, support and automation using Terraform, Ansible etc

Expertise in designing and implementing monitoring, logging and alerting systems (ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)

Proficient with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git, GitHub Actions) and expertise in implementing and managing cloud-based database services like Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache etc.

Associate is expected to either be SC Cleared or eligible for SC Clearance - Must have worked continuously in the UK for 5 years

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