AWS Devops Engineer (SC Cleared)

• Run, manage, and continuously evolve AWS and secure on-premise environments to ensure high availability
• Lead Level 3 (L3) production support, including non-production maintenance and 24/7 on-call support
• Ensure services comply with government security standards and change/release governance models
• Build and maintain infrastructure components including:

• Kafka event streaming
• Aurora, RDS, and Redis databases
• Identity management (Keycloak)
• Caching and secure data layers

• Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines and developer self-service tooling
• Proactively manage technical debt in collaboration with governance bodies
• Improve automation, observability, and testing coverage across platform services
• Align infrastructure delivery with product roadmaps and platform strategy
• Support critical national infrastructure tasks including:

• Deployments
• Incident, problem, and change management (ITIL-aligned)
• Continuous service improvement

• Use and integrate ServiceNow (or successor platforms) for operational governance

Diversity & Inclusion

At Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe diversity drives innovation. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where every individual is respected, valued, and supported.

• AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Kafka, IAM)

Secure Hosting

• Experience working within air-gapped or government-secure environments

Container & Cluster Management

• Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher
• Helm
• Jenkins

Monitoring & Observability

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK Stack
• Dynatrace

Secrets & Identity Management

• HashiCorp Vault
• Keycloak

CI/CD & DevOps Tooling

• Jenkins
• Git
• ServiceNow
• Trivy
• Terraform

Streaming & Messaging

• Apache Kafka (including Kafka Replication)

Data Technologies

• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• RDLs

Automation & Scripting

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Pipeline automation
• Event relay tooling
• Bash, Python, Groovy
• AWS Lambda

Newcastle, Tyne & Wear - 400 - 450 Inside IR 35 Contract Posted by: scrumconnect ltd Posted: Monday, 2 March 2026 About Scrumconnect Consulting 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, secure engineering, and agile delivery, we continue to build innovative digital services that truly matter.