AWS Platform/DevOps Engineer
Summary
DevOps Engineer on a major UK government digital transformation program, building and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Docker, Jenkins CI/CD, and monitoring stacks in a 24x7 environment.
As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for creating the right environment for your multidisciplinary team to succeed, helping them to self-organize whilst fostering a culture of learning and transparency. You'll be a key part of one of the UK's biggest and most high-profile digital transformation programs, a once-in-a-generation reform of government products and services.
- Develop high quality and maintainable code with automation first approach.
- Provide in-depth insight into DevOps issues and strong technical experience.
- Maintain an open-minded attitude and ability to rapidly adapt and learn in line with DevOps culture.
- Facilitate workshops, meetings with a variety of stakeholders, show and tell, and drive outcomes.
- Manage technology change, issues, and escalations (external and internal), taking responsibility by owning them until they are mitigated or resolved.
- Lead by example, acting as a servant-leader, demonstrating the right behaviours, dealing with conflict, and helping establish a team culture that allows for constructive criticism. 10+ years of experience with a broad range of AWS technologies (eg, EC2, ECS, RDS, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, SSM, HSM) to develop and maintain an AWS-based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
- Expertise in AWS networking using VPC, NACLs, route53, transit gateways and VIFs.
- Expertise in provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as Vagrant.
- Experience with using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to support automation
- Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
- Strong Scripting skills (eg Shell, Python, PowerShell) and automation skills.
- Experience in configuring Open LDAP
- Thorough knowledge of Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline using Groovy script.
- Experience with Docker containers and Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.
- Experience with system monitoring tools (eg, Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, and Node exporter).
- Experience in deploying and configuring Postfix SMTP and Dovecot IMAP Servers.
- Experience configuring mail clients like Thunderbird and outlook office 365.
- Experience working with implementing COTS products.
- Experience in configuring and maintain Nginx and Squid Proxy with mTLS.
- Ability to analyse and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.
- Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.
- Experience in automating and codifying the installation of software packages.
- Nessus security scanning and antivirus experience with ClamAV and MS defender.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Experience in Jaspersoft reporting tool.
- DBA experience in performance tuning SQL queries and Postgres/Aurora DB config.
- Experience in setting up Proxmox cluster with ubuntu OS.
- Knowledge of Windows System Update Service and DFS Replication.
- Experience with Windows Group Policy Objects and access/permissions control via GPO.
- Firewall and switch configuration and patch management.
- Understanding of network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).
- Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on digital or technology projects at a leading consultancy, agency, or government organization.
- AWS or Azure certification, or willingness to attain the certification.
- Self-starter, comfortable working in both process-driven and ambiguous environments.
- Experience and passion for working within Central Government and other sectors.
- Proven capability of working successfully with senior client stakeholders and end-users, quickly building successful relationships, and establishing credibility.
- Passion for digital and technology, with the drive and determination to continually learn new things and develop yourself and others.
- Strong written, presentation, and verbal communication skills, with a high degree of attention to detail.
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to work independently in a highly collaborative, team-based environment.