IT & Software

AWS Platform DevOps Engineer

TieTalent

Birmingham · England · United Kingdom

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.

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