Lead DevOps
Summary
Lead DevOps Engineer doing hands-on AWS platform engineering at Methods Consulting, building and operating identity platforms on Kubernetes (EKS) and ECS for government projects. Day to day: Terraform and Helm development, GitLab CI pipelines, incident investigation, mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions.
Lead DevOps Engineer focused on AWS platform engineering within Methods, guiding identity platforms on Kubernetes and ECS. You will mentor engineers, drive technical decisions, and own services end-to-end. This hands-on role combines architecture, delivery, and leadership to scale secure AWS-based platforms for government projects. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to improve reliability and performance while shaping the platform roadmap.
Pay / Benefits- Autonomy to grow skills
- Impactful project work in society
- LinkedIn Learning and leadership development
- Wellness programme
- 25 days holiday
- Pension salary exchange scheme with employer contribution
- Own services lifecycle from design to production support
- Develop and maintain Terraform modules and infrastructure as code
- Develop and maintain Helm charts and reusable libraries
- Deploy and operate services on ECS and EKS; support ECS platform
- Write and maintain GitLab CI pipelines and templates
- Create and maintain automated tests for infrastructure, platform code and apps
- Lead Agile ceremonies and contribute to technical design discussions
- Mentor engineers and lead technical discussions within the squad
- Investigate incidents and perform root cause analysis
- Produce Spike investigations and implementation proposals
- Produce technical documentation and Jira stories with clear acceptance criteria
- Strong hands-on AWS experience (ECS, EKS, EC2, IAM, CloudWatch)
- Terraform expertise with production-grade modules and environments
- Kubernetes knowledge with EKS deployment and RBAC
- Docker experience (building images, Dockerfiles)
- GitLab CI/CD experience and reusable pipeline components
- Helm usage: charts, templates, values management
- Experience with Kong API Gateway and Istio service mesh would be beneficial
- Proficiency in testing (Terraform tests, Go tests for Helm, pytest for Python) and performance testing (JMeter, k6)
- Background in monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana; Dynatrace experience
- Security and identity knowledge (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, API authentication)
- Strong documentation and technical leadership capabilities
- Security clearance willingness (baseline security checks)
- Leadership and mentoring
- Collaboration across cross-functional teams
- Clear communication and documentation
- AWS (ECS, EKS, EC2, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch)
- Terraform (modules, workspaces, IaC practices)
- Kubernetes (RBAC, Deployments, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, HPA, network policies)