Platform/DevOps Engineer

• Own and continuously evolve the AWS and secure on-premise environments, ensuring high availability and resilience.
• Lead Level 3 (L3) production support and non-production environment maintenance, including 24/7 on-call support, acting as an escalation point for complex incidents.
• Ensure all services are compliant with security standards and drive adherence to the change and release governance model.
• Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure components: 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, identifying opportunities for platform-wide improvement.
• Proactively manage and resolve technical debt, working with central governance bodies and providing visibility to the board.
• Drive increased automation, observability, and testing coverage across platform components, enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Align delivery with the product roadmap, collaborating with internal/external platform and infrastructure teams to support scalable, 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.
• Support replication services, match engines, and secure data flows (Impex, Threat, Kafka replication).
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers.

We are looking for an experienced Platform/DevOps Engineer (SFIA Level 4 - Enable) with 5-8 years of experience to take ownership of running, evolving, and securing our AWS and secure on-premise environments. You will lead on production support, drive automation and observability improvements, and act as a technical authority across the platform, mentoring less experienced engineers along the way.

Preferred Tech Stack Expertise

• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Kafka, IAM)
• Secure Hosting: Experience working with air-gapped or government-secure environments
• Container & Cluster Management: Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Jenkins, Helm
• 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 Layers: PostgreSQL, Redis, RDLs
• Automation: IaC, pipeline build automation, event relay tooling
• Scripting: Bash, Python, Groovy, Lambda functions, * 5-8 years of experience in a DevOps/Platform Engineering role, ideally within a regulated, secure, or government environment.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead technical initiatives and take ownership of complex platform components.
• SC Clearance Required

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, we continue to deliver innovative digital services that matter.