Senior Devops Engineer

• Senior DevOps Engineer - SC Cleared (Required)
• 6-12 months
• £500 / day (Inside IR35)
• Remote

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will support the development and operation of critical digital services through automation, modern tooling, and best-in-class engineering practices. Aligned to Government Digital and Data (DDaT) standards, your focus will be on building, deploying, and operating reliable, secure, and repeatable services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated deployment pipelines.

In this role, you will place automation at the core of your workdeveloping robust CI/CD pipelines, creating resilient DevOps toolchains, and designing solutions across multiple cloud environments that are highly available, scalable, extensible, and maintainable.

Key Responsibilities

• Automation and Toolchains: Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains, striving to embed automation across the entire software delivery lifecycle.
• Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure: Provision, implement, and maintain highly available, resilient, and scalable cloud infrastructure and services.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with multidisciplinary, product-focused Agile teams (Scrum/Kanban) to gather technical requirements, evaluate modern tooling, and assist with operational issues.
• Environment Management: Provision, configure, and maintain stable development, staging, and production environments.
• Legacy Migration: Support the modernization and migration of legacy applications into secure cloud environments.
• Standards and Security: Ensure all platforms, configurations, and deployment strategies align strictly with DDaT and government security standards.

Required Experience And Skills

• Active Security Clearance: Valid SC Clearance is essential due to the nature of the project environment.
• AWS Cloud Engineering: Demonstrable experience developing and supporting AWS cloud-based applications, with specific hands-on expertise using EC2 and ECS.
• Infrastructure and Configuration as Code: Strong experience writing, modularizing, and maintaining code using Terraform and Ansible.
• CI/CD and OS Management: Proven track record with Unix/Linux/Windows operating systems in development or support roles, strong scripting abilities, and hands-on experience implementing/maintaining pipelines in GitLab CI.
• Agile and Delivery: Demonstrable experience working within Software or Platform Engineering teams utilizing Scrum or Kanban frameworks with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Cloud Migration: Demonstrated background in migrating legacy systems and applications into modern cloud environments.

Technical Stack

• Cloud: AWS (EC2, ECS)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform
• Configuration Management: Ansible
• CI/CD: GitLab CI
• Operating Systems: Unix / Linux / Windows
• Methodologies: Agile (Scrum / Kanban), CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, DDaT Framework

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