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You will be joining a secure engineering environment supporting the operation, maintenance and continuous improvement of a business-critical platform and its associated services. The role sits within an established engineering team responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, security and performance of systems operating within a secure operational environment.
Your new role
As a DevOps Engineer, you will support platform infrastructure, deployment pipelines and live services across AWS-hosted environments. Working closely with development, support and platform teams, you will help maintain operational stability while contributing to automation, infrastructure improvements and service resilience.
Key responsibilities
- Support AWS-hosted infrastructure and platform services.
- Maintain and develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
- Support Docker-based applications across development, test and production environments.
- Assist with CI/CD pipeline development and support using Jenkins, Groovy and GitLab.
- Monitor platform health, performance and availability using Elastic, Kibana and related tools.
- Investigate and resolve infrastructure, deployment and service-related incidents.
- Support networking technologies including VPNs, OpenVPN, Transit Gateway and API Gateway.
- Maintain NGINX, PostgreSQL and associated platform services.
- Contribute to operational resilience, disaster recovery and service continuity activities.
- Perform platform maintenance, patching and security updates.
- Create and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment processes and automation.
- Participate in incident response and on-call support activities.
- Work within established engineering standards, security controls and operational processes.
- Support a 24/7 operational environment and participate in on-call rotas as required.
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What you'll need to succeed
Essential skills and experience
Platform Engineering & Infrastructure
- AWS
- Terraform
- Docker
- NGINX
- PostgreSQL (EC2 and RDS environments)
- Linux administration
- Windows administration
- AWS Transit Gateway
- AWS API Gateway
- AWS Virtual Desktop
- VPN and OpenVPN technologies
DevOps & Automation
- Jenkins
- Groovy
- GitLab
- CI/CD pipeline implementation and support
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Automated deployment processes
- Configuration management
Monitoring & Observability
- Elastic
- Kibana
- Infrastructure monitoring and alerting
- Performance monitoring
- Log analysis and troubleshooting
- Service availability monitoring
- Root cause analysis
Desirable skills and experience
Cloud & Platform Technologies
- AWS SageMaker
- Python scripting and automation
- Container orchestration platforms
- Infrastructure security and hardening
- Cloud networking and connectivity
Application Support Knowledge
- C# -.NET
- JavaScript
- React
- REST APIs
- Microservices architecture
COTS Product Experience
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- Supporting Commercial Off-The-Shelf products within secure environments
- Troubleshooting intelligence, analytical or partner-provided systems
- Exposure to SOLAR, MAT or equivalent operational platforms
- Integration of internally developed applications with third-party products
AI & Analytics
- Experience supporting AI-enabled services
- Exposure to Large Language Model (LLM) solutions
- Data analytics and monitoring platforms
Additional Skills
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement
- Experience within highly regulated environments
What you'll get in return
- 12-month contract opportunity
- Fully remote working
- Opportunity to support critical secure platform services and cloud infrastructure
- SC-cleared environment
- Rate: £550 per day via Umbrella
How to apply
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