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DevOps Engineer (SC & NPPV3 Required)
Permanent
Birmingham (Hybrid)
£70,000- £75,000 + Benefits
We are seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer with AWS experience for a Permanent position based in Birmingham. Active SC clearance and NPPV3 are required for this role.
The role requires travel to Birmingham 4/5 days a week and an immediate start, ideally in Summer 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).
