DevOps Engineer

Platform Support & Operations Support and maintain AWS-hosted data platforms and associated infrastructure. Monitor platform health, performance, security, and availability. Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and application-related issues. Lead incident resolution and root cause analysis activities. Ensure platform services meet operational and service-level requirements. Automation & DevOps Enablement Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform. Improve deployment reliability, consistency, and efficiency through automation. Maintain GitLab pipelines, runners, and supporting DevOps tooling. Create reusable automation frameworks and operational tooling using Python.Platform Optimisation Identify opportunities to improve platform performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency. Optimise AWS resources and data platform services. Support infrastructure upgrades, patching, and technical debt reduction initiatives. Contribute to platform standardisation and engineering best practices. Technical Leadership Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior DevOps engineers within the client team. Conduct code reviews and promote engineering standards and DevOps best practices. Collaborate with Data Engineers, Architects, Security teams, and Product stakeholders. Support knowledge transfer and capability development across the wider team. Future Platform Development Participate in the design and implementation of new platform capabilities. Support migration and decommissioning activities for legacy platforms. Contribute to platform architecture and strategic engineering initiatives.

Strong experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation. Proven Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience using Terraform. Advanced Python scripting and automation experience. Strong GitLab CI/CD and GitLab Runner administration experience. Hands-on AWS experience, including: IAM, Security and access management Experience supporting production cloud platforms and data workloads. Strong understanding of DevOps principles, automation practices, and release management. Experience troubleshooting complex operational and infrastructure issues. Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Leadership & Collaboration Experience coaching and supporting junior engineers. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. Ability to translate operational challenges into automation and improvement opportunities. Experience working within Agile delivery environments. Desirable Skills Apache Spark administration or development experience. Data Engineering experience within AWS data ecosystems. Experience supporting data processing platforms such as EMR and Glue. PySpark experience. Knowledge of data lake and analytics architectures. Exposure to monitoring and observability tooling. Experience with platform modernisation and legacy system decommissioning programmes.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world’s most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance.