DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer (SC & NPPV3)

Permanent 

Birmingham (Hybrid)

£70,000- £75,000 + Benefits

We are looking for DevOps Platform Engineer with AWS experience and active SC clearance  & NPPV3 is required for a permanent position based in Birmingham.

The role requires travel to Birmingham 4 to 5 days a week and an immediate start, ideally in May/June 2025.

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 with 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, and Node exporter).


• Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.


• Active SC Clearance & NPVV3 is required for this role.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on Digital or Technology projects at a government organisations.


• Linux system administration experience, including 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).