Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Location: Croydon (Largely Remote Working)

Salary: £80,000 - £85,000 PA

Start date: Immediately

This role requires UK Security Clearance. To be eligible for this you must have been UK-based for a minimum of 5 years.

Job Summary:

Digital Skills are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to join a great client. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, building and evolving their AWS cloud infrastructure and ensuring its reliability, scalability, and security. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in AWS services, automation tools, and DevOps practices. We are looking for someone passionate about technology, who enjoys problem-solving, and has a collaborative mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Develop and implement automated tools and processes for building, deployment, monitoring, testing and maintenance of infrastructure and applications
• Develop and maintain policies and procedures for security, compliance, and disaster recovery
• Optimise infrastructure for high availability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency
• Continuously monitor and improve infrastructure and application performance
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and application issues
• Manage and mentor junior DevOps engineers

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 5+ years of experience in AWS cloud infrastructure design, implementation, and management
• Proficient programming skills in at least one , preferably Python or Go
• Extensive experience in deploying cloud platforms at scale using AWS Organisations / Control Tower / Landing Zones
• Expert-level experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Ansible, CloudFormation or Terraform
• Extensive background in Configuration Management and Automation
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems administration
• Expert-level experience in AWS Networking / TCP / Firewalls / Certs
• Advanced proficiency with containers and container orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Observability champion, experience in designing and building monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, ELK, and Grafana
• Strong scripting skills in Bash, JavaScript or similar
• Knowledge of SecDevOps security best practices and experience implementing security controls in a cloud environment including SIEM, Guard Duty, Shield, Inspector and Security Hub
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline development and management
• Best practice configuration of and Access Management and IAM Center

Qualifications

• AWS Speciality, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or AWS Professional Certification
• Experience with CDK and TypeScript
• Experience with other cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP
• Experience with serverless architecture, frameworks and services such as SAM, Lambda and API Gateway

If this sounds like the right role for you, and you have the skills, please apply.