DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer - AWS Central Government

Rate: 555 per day Contract: Contract Location: Predominantly remote with occasional/ad hoc travel to client sites Clearance: Active SC Clearance required

The Role

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a major digital transformation programme for a Central Government client .

You will work within a cloud-native AWS and Java environment , helping to build, maintain and optimise the infrastructure, deployment pipelines and cloud platforms underpinning critical public-facing digital services.

The successful candidate will have strong Central Government/public sector experience alongside a proven background in DevOps, AWS cloud engineering, automation and modern agile delivery environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain infrastructure across AWS cloud environments .

• Build and support CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and efficient software delivery.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployment.

• Support Java-based applications and microservices .

• Implement monitoring, alerting and logging solutions to maintain platform reliability and performance.

• Support platform security, compliance and operational resilience.

• Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment and performance issues across development and production environments.

• Promote DevOps best practice, automation and continuous improvement.

• Support disaster recovery, backup and business continuity activities.

• Collaborate closely with Architects, Developers, Security and Delivery teams.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer within large-scale digital transformation programmes.

• Strong Central Government/public sector experience .

• Significant hands-on experience with AWS .

• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, CloudFormation or similar .

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or similar.

• Experience supporting Java-based applications and microservices architectures .

• Strong Linux administration and scripting skills using Bash, Python or similar.

• Experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes .

• Knowledge of monitoring and logging technologies such as CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK and Prometheus .

• Strong understanding of cloud security, networking and operational best practices .