IT & Software

DevOps Engineer

TXP Talent

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role, you enable and sustain cloud-native infrastructure and deployment platforms for a central government digital transformation programme. You will work in an AWS and Java environment to build, optimise and operate critical public-facing services. You’ll design scalable infrastructure, automate provisioning and CI/CD pipelines, and ensure security, reliability and resilience. You join a cross-functional team, collaborating with Architects, Developers, Security and Delivery teams to deliver secure, compliant cloud solutions. This is a mission-driven opportunity to shape government digital services at scale.

Responsibilities
  • Design, implement and maintain infrastructure across AWS environments
  • Build and support CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable software delivery
  • Automate provisioning, configuration and deployment
  • Support Java-based applications and microservices
  • Implement monitoring, alerting and logging to maintain platform reliability and performance
  • Support platform security, compliance and operational resilience
  • Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment and performance issues across environments
  • Promote DevOps best practices, automation and continuous improvement
  • Support disaster recovery, backup and business continuity activities
  • Collaborate with Architects, Developers, Security and Delivery teams
Key requirements
  • Proven DevOps Engineer with large-scale digital transformation experience
  • Strong Central Government/public sector experience
  • Significant hands-on AWS experience
  • Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation or similar)
  • CI/CD pipelines experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or similar)
  • Experience supporting Java-based applications and microservices
  • Strong Linux administration and scripting (Bash, Python or similar)
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Knowledge of monitoring/logging (CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK, Prometheus)
  • Strong cloud security, networking and operational best practices
  • collaboration
  • problem-solving
  • continuous improvement
  • AWS
  • Terraform/CloudFormation
  • Jenkins

Reference: WJ-747_30349705

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