AWS Devops Engineer (SC Cleared)
Summary
AWS DevOps Engineer managing and evolving AWS and secure on-premise environments for UK government digital services, including L3 production support, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and security compliance.
London, United Kingdom | Posted on 21/08/2026
Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. With a strong commitment to user-centred design and agile delivery, and more to deliver innovative digital services that matter
Preferred Tech Stack Expertise
Cloud Infrastructure : AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Kafka, IAM)
Secure Hosting : Experience working with air-gapped or government-secure environments
Secrets & Identity Management : HashiCorp Vault, Keycloak
Automation : IaC, pipeline build automation, event relay tooling
Scripting : Bash, Python, Groovy, Lambda functions
Responsibilities
Run, manage, and continuously evolve the AWS and secure on-premise environments to ensure availability .
Lead Level 3 (L3) production support and non-production environment maintenance, including 24/7 on-call support .
Ensure all services are compliant with security standards and support the change and release governance model .
Build and maintain infrastructure components like event streaming (Kafka), databases (Aurora, RDS, Redis), identity management (Keycloak), and caching layers.
Enhance and maintain CI/CD tooling and self-service developer pipelines for tenant teams.
Proactively manage and resolve tech debt by working with central governance bodies and ensure visibility to the board.
Increase automation, observability, and testing coverage across the platform components while enabling data-driven decision-making.
Align delivery with the product roadmap, collaborating with internal/external platform and infrastructure teams to support scalable and resilient services.
Support critical national infrastructure tasks including platform deployments, incident/problem/change management, and continual service improvement (ITIL-aligned).
Use and integrate ServiceNow (or its successor) to track and manage changes, incidents, requests, and problem records.
Diversity & Inclusion
At Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe that diversity drives innovation. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where every individual is respected, valued, and supported. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences, and we actively encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, underrepresented communities, and those seeking flexible working arrangements.