AWS DevOps Engineer

AWS DevOps Engineer

Permanent

Location: Home Based (Quarterly Head Office visits in Cardiff)

Salary: £45,000 - £56,000 (+ excellent benefits - including 28% Employer contribution Pension)

Skills: AWS, IaC, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, CI/CD tooling, Terraform, Github, Ansible, (plus a language such as Python, Java, Node JS etc.)

We are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to join a technology-driven public sector organisation. This home-based role requires quarterly visits to the head office in Cardiff. This is an exciting opportunity for a DevOps professional to work within a talented technical team on impactful Government projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure seamless integration, delivery, and operation of services.
• Collaborate with technical architects to translate designs into operational solutions.
• Design and develop infrastructure as code, manage source code repositories, and build CI/CD pipelines for Cloud environments.
• Identify and coordinate integration opportunities between technologies to support organisational goals.
• Lead and support non-functional requirements including availability, security, capacity, and performance.
• Implement scalable, repeatable, and highly available deployment strategies.

Essential Experience and Skills:

• 2+ years in a DevOps Engineering role using the listed essential technologies.
• Expert-level experience with AWS Cloud technologies, CI/CD tools (Concourse, Jenkins, etc.), GitHub (source control and versioning), and Terraform.
• Strong experience with Ansible, Unix/Linux environments, and Python.
• Desired experience with Packer, Microservice and Serverless Architectures, and AWS Glue.
• Awareness of additional programming languages such as Java and Node.js.

Technical Skills Assessment:

Candidates will be evaluated on their proficiency in:

• Terraform
• AWS Cloud technology
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tooling

Why Join Us?

• Competitive salary package with excellent benefits.
• Generous 28% employer pension contribution.
• Opportunity to contribute to impactful Government projects.
• Work alongside a supportive and innovative technical team.