AWS Platform DevOps Engineer

TieTalent

Birmingham, UK

1 day ago

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Role details

Contract type

Temporary contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Compensation

£117,000.0 - £130,000.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.collegerecruiter.com

Tech stack

Secure Shell (SSH) Java (Programming Language) Microsoft Windows Active Directory Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Confluence JIRA Bash Shell Cloud Computing Security Linux

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DevOps Domain Name System (DNS) Perl (Programming Language) Groovy Monitoring of Systems HTTP Secure Network Topologies Identity and Access Management Python (Programming Language) Linux System Administration Simple Mail Transfer Protocols Network Protocols Node.Js Windows PowerShell Prometheus Vagrant Scripting File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Grafana Firewalls (Computer Science) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Git SC Clearance Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Information Technology Patch Management Cloudwatch Terraform DFS Replication Docker Jenkins Servicenow

Job description

Overview

AWS Platform DevOps Engineer (SC & NPPV3) - 6-month Contract - Birmingham (Hybrid) - £450-£500/day Outside IR35.

AWS DevOps Platform Engineer needed for a contract position based in Birmingham. The role requires travel to Birmingham 2/3 days a week with an immediate start, ideally August/September 2025. ACTIVE SC clearance (used within the last 12 months) and NPPV3 (used within the last 6 months) are required for this role.

A chance to work with a leading Digital Transformation business delivering large-scale, long-term IT projects for the public sector.

Key skills & experience

Good experience with AWS technologies (e.g., EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an AWS-based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
Provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as Vagrant.
Experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
Strong scripting skills (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell, Perl, Java) and automation skills.
Thorough knowledge of Jenkins and pipeline using Groovy script.
Experience with Docker containers and Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.
Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, Node exporter).
Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.

Desired Skills and Experience

Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on Digital or Technology projects at government organisations.
Knowledge of Windows System Update Service and DFS Replication.
Linux system administration experience: building, hardening, and managing Linux operating systems.
MS Active Directory configuration and management.
Firewall and switch configuration and patch management.
Understanding of network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).
Experience with Windows Group Policy Objects and access/permissions control via GPO.

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology; Industry: Technology, Information and Internet.

Requirements

Good experience with AWS technologies (e.g., EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an AWS-based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
Provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as Vagrant.
Experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
Strong scripting skills (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell, Perl, Java) and automation skills.
Thorough knowledge of Jenkins and pipeline using Groovy script.
Experience with Docker containers and Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.
Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, Node exporter).
Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management., * Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on Digital or Technology projects at government organisations.
Knowledge of Windows System Update Service and DFS Replication.
Linux system administration experience: building, hardening, and managing Linux operating systems.
MS Active Directory configuration and management.
Firewall and switch configuration and patch management.
Understanding of network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).
Experience with Windows Group Policy Objects and access/permissions control via GPO.