AWS DevOps Lead

Contract Role - AWS DevOps Lead - Remote - 12 months initial - Inside IR35

Role Overview:
* Job Title: AWS DevOps Lead
* Location: Remote (Remote within UK Travel as required)
* Contract Type: Contract
* Duration: 12 months initial

Lead Dev Ops team (of 4) in the early build phase of this project, moving a mission critical Department system from OPH to Cloud. The project involves migration and modernisation of the application and DB components and re-platforming of the system to AWS on a refreshed, modernised platform with class-leading enterprise devops and operational tooling.
Lead the company engineering team in a multi-disciplinary organisational environment coordinating and prioritising the project build activities across the Department's wider Hybrid Cloud Services organisation. The ability to communicate, take the lead on checkpoints and broker for the project priorities is key.
* Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD (GitOps) and Helm.
* Develop and optimise infrastructure-as-code

Required skills
MANDATORY - 5 Years UK RESIDENCY
* Strong experience with DevOps practices and automation-first delivery.
* Hands-on with GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Helm or similar CI/CD and GitOps tools.
* Solid understanding of containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
* Experience writing or maintaining Terraform infrastructure modules.
* Familiarity with build automation tools (eg, ANT, Maven, Gradle).
* Competence in Scripting (Bash, Python, or similar).

Nice to have skills
* Experience supporting modernisation projects involving migration from on-premise hosting to AWS Cloud.
* Awareness of operational tooling such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Flexera, Splunk.
* Exposure to WAS Liberty, and batch technologies such as PRO*C, KSH scripts.
* Exposure to Oracle enterprise database technologies, F5 Big-IP

Please feel free to contact myself - Daisy Nguyen see below at Atrium UK for a confidential chat to know more details about the role.

Please also note: Due to the volume of applications received for positions, it will not be possible to respond to all applications and only applicants who are considered suitable for interview will be contacted.