Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer
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Your new company You'll be joining a public sector organisation that plays a key role in setting standards, governance and best practice across its field in the UK. The organisation has a strong digital focus and is continuing to modernise its cloud infrastructure and deployment practices to support internal users and external stakeholders. The environment is collaborative, stable and supportive, with a strong emphasis on security, reliability and long-term improvement rather than short-term delivery. Your new role As an Infrastructure Engineer, you'll support and develop a modern AWS-based infrastructure while working closely with developers to improve application delivery and deployment processes. This role offers a clear progression path into a DevOps position, providing hands-on exposure to automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud engineering practices. You'll take ownership of day-to-day cloud infrastructure operations, while gradually increasing your involvement in DevOps tooling and workflows such as CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments., * Maintaining, patching and monitoring AWS Linux servers and services
- Building, configuring, documenting and retiring cloud infrastructure resources
- Managing AWS services including EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, IAM, Route 53, Load Balancers, Auto Scaling, Security Groups and CloudFront
- Supporting SQL databases (Postgres or MySQL), including installation, backup, restore and migration
- Monitoring cloud usage and costs and suggesting efficiency improvements
- Installing and configuring web and application software (Apache, Nginx, PHP, Python)
- Managing Cloudflare DNS and firewall configuration
- Installing, configuring and renewing SSL certificates
- Contributing to CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Supporting the security, patching and modernisation of legacy systems
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure
- Good Linux systems administration experience
- Experience working with SQL databases (Postgres or MySQL)
- Exposure to CI/CD, ideally using GitHub Actions
- Confidence using the command line
- Shell scripting experience (bash, sh, YAML)
- DNS configuration and SSL certificate management knowledge
- Understanding of networking concepts such as VPCs, subnets and security groups
Desirable experience includes:
- Cloudflare
- Infrastructure-as-Code tools
- Azure exposure
- Docker
- PHP or Python
- SQL querying
What you'll get in return:This role offers an excellent long-term career proposition with clear progression into a DevOps position, with hands-on experience in CI/CD, automation and cloud engineering. You will join a supportive environment and a role offering strong benefits, flexible working and genuine development opportunities.
Benefits & conditions
- 33.75-hour working week, shorter than the standard 37.5 hours
- Remote working options to support work-life balance
- 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, with additional leave accrued through service
- Generous pension scheme, with employer contributions of up to 12%
- Private medical insurance and health insurance options
