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AWS DevOps Engineer/Contract/Stratford/£600-£750 per day/Outside IR35
Tech Stack: AWS, DevOps, Agile, Configuration Management, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Chef, CloudFormation, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, SALT, Jenkins, CircleCI, Cope Pipeline, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, Scala, Go, Bash, PowerShell
My client, a leading digital transformation partner for the UK Government, is currently recruiting for a number of AWS DevOps Engineers to join their growing Cloud function on a permanent basis in London.
You will be joining a leading team of cloud engineers, architects, technologists and thought leaders placing you at the forefront of cloud technology adoption in the UK; assisting in a range of projects from data centre migrations to the provision of new cloud native digital services to exploring emerging technologies such as Distributed Ledger, Serverless Application Development and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning to name a few!
This is a fast-paced role, and well suited for someone looking to get their hands involved in all aspects of cloud provisioning, orchestration and configuration management.
The successful AWS DevOps Engineer will:
- Apply modern development standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, security standards, usability design standards, as appropriate
- Proactively evolve and apply DevOps methodologies, standards and leading practices
- Ensure re-use through consumption and expansion of shared platform and community technology assets
- Run the engineering community of practise/centre of excellence internally as well as engagement with the wider external communities
- Using strategic thinking, consider the art of the possible, compare various options based on feasibility and impact, propose actionable plans and roadmaps that balance tactical and strategic needs
- Maintain exceptional knowledge of cloud and emerging technology industry and trends
- Advise partners, Methods pre/sales & technical teams on best practice for customer facing solutions. This can be both a proactive activity where you build a plan with the partner to pursue a specific technical scenario or it can be a reactive response to a customer need or request for proposal
Desired skills and Experience:
- Comfortable working on agile-based teams comprised of team members with diverse skill-sets (eg Quality Assurance Engineers, User Experience Designers and User Researchers, Software Engineers/Architects etc)
- Demonstrates growth mindset, enthusiastic about learning new technologies quickly and applying the gained knowledge to address business problems
- Consistently demonstrates follow-through in honouring commitments to customers and colleagues. Accepts the challenge of unfamiliar tasks
- Engage with stakeholders and project teams to understand requirements, deliverables, and set expectations on tasks that you will be responsible for whilst translating these into technical deliverables
- Deep dive into complex engineering, performance, security and scalability issues to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents
- Knowledge of DevOps for AWS cloud infrastructure (essential), DevOps concepts, methods and tooling, agile delivery methods, collaboration tooling, operational service acceptance requirements
- Experience of configuration management and Infrastructure as Code tooling, practises and processes (eg Chef, CloudFormation, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, SALT) leveraging CI/CD tooling and processes (eg Jenkins, CircleCI, Cope Pipeline)
- Experience with automated testing, test-driven development, behaviour-driven development etc
- Experience working with the one or more following languages: Node.js, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, Scala, Go, Bash, PowerShell
- Experience in enterprise public cloud implementations preferably in public sector or in highly regulated environments (financial services, insurance, E-commerce etc) focusing on AWS
- Optimization of applications to scalable cloud designs, rearchitecting applications to modern cloud patterns, and database migration (including cross-platform)
- Experience in a hands-on engineering role(s) designing and implementing distributed, containerised and server-less hyperscale systems in AWS
Essential skills:
- At least 2 years experience with AWS
- Public sector experience, ideally from within large scale Government Digital Transformation programmes
- At least 2 years experience of Chef
- Consultancy experience
- At least 2 years experience of CloudFormation
- Must be eligible for SC clearance or ideally already hold valid SC clearance
Please direct any questions to Ashleigh Roberts at Berkeley Square IT via (see below) or apply now for immediate consideration.