AWS DevOps Engineer
2 days ago
Bristol
hackajob is collaborating with Leidos to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. \n Role Overview: \n We are seeking an experienced hands-on AWS DevOps Engineer to join the LCST Programme team. As part of a high-performing Agile team, you will design, implement, and support secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using a tailored SAFe Agile SecDevOps Scrum process. You'll apply DevOps best practices and cloud-native design principles, leveraging AWS services and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to drive automation and continuous delivery across environments. \n \n This role also includes hands-on work with automated testing, deployments, and infrastructure monitoring—alongside participation in Agile ceremonies, risk mitigation activities, and collaborative solution design. Cross-functional flexibility across systems engineering, software development, testing, and security is highly valued. \n \n Key Responsibilities: \n\n • \n Demonstrated experience in managing source code with GIT, including pull requests, branching strategies (Trunk-based, GitFlow), and collaborative version control workflows \n • \n Expertise in designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure, including services like EC2, ECR, ECS, ECK, ASG, VPC, RDS, Load Balancers, Lambda, IAM, ports, R53 etc \n • \n Strong proficiency in IAC using Terraform and Ansible to provision, configure, and maintain secure and scalable cloud environments \n • \n Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, implementing automation for building, testing, and deploying applications across multiple environments \n • \n Proven ability to write and maintain scripts and automation tools using Bash, Python, and PowerShell to enhance operational workflows and eliminate manual tasks \n • \n Familiarity with containerisation using Docker and orchestration best practices, along with configuration management using Ansible. \n • \n Knowledge of secrets management and access control using tools like Vault and IAM policies, ensuring secure handling of credentials and sensitive information \n • \n Strong understanding of AWS security best practices, including encryption, patching, monitoring, least privilege access, and compliance requirements. \n • \n Hands-on experience in implementing and managing backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data protection and business continuity] \n • \n Ability to implement robust monitoring and logging solutions e.g., CloudWatch, to ensure system reliability, observability, and proactive incident response \n • \n Comfortable working in Agile development teams, translating business requirements into technical solutions, and actively participating in sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups \n • \n Capability to design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions that meet availability and performance objectives \n • \n Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and implement effective mitigation strategies in complex environments \n • \n Understanding of routing, traffic management, and load balancing, including configuration of NGINX and AWS-native tools for optimizing traffic flow. \n • \n Experience with structured release and change management processes, including deployment governance, rollback strategies, and versioning control. \n • \n Awareness of Java application environments and deployment considerations is a plus for supporting platform-wide consistency and integrations \n • \n Proactive mindset with a continuous improvement attitude, regularly identifying opportunities to enhance delivery pipelines, infrastructure, and development practices \n • \n Proficiency in designing and managing SNS topics for event-driven architectures, integrating notifications with Lambda, or external systems to support decoupled and scalable cloud workflows \n • \n Hands-on experience using Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket to support Agile delivery, documentation, collaboration, and CI/CD pipeline management \n • \n Working knowledge of Active Directory and ADFS for identity and access management, including group policy management, SSO, and integration with cloud authentication services \n\n \n Application Requirements: \n\n • \n Hands-on experience: \n \n • \n in any programming language e.g. python, bash, powershell, etc \n • \n in Redhat OS \n • \n in AWS OR Azure OR any other cloud provider \n • \n as Redhat and windows Admin \n • \n in containerised solution \n • \n in supporting application troubleshooting \n • \n IAC – terraform \n • \n App config - ansible or any other like puppet \n • \n CI/CD pipeline like Jenkins or Azure devops or bamboo, etc \n • \n Any Automation \n \n\n \n Desired Skills: \n\n • \n AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or equivalent certification \n • \n Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation \n • \n Experience with Ansible for configuration management \n • \n Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash) \n • \n ITIL Foundation Certification or experience with ITIL-based environments \n\n \n Interview Requirements: \n\n • \n This role will involve a two-stage interview process: \n \n • \n First stage: face to face video competency-based interview covering your experience and transferable skills/application requirements into the role \n • \n Second stage: face to face in person interview at our Bristol office, this will include a technical test aligned around the application requirement capabilities \n \n\n \n Clearance Requirements: \n\n • \n BPSS pre-screening required to start \n • \n Clearance for Role SC \n • \n Must be a UK Citizen and based in UK for the duration \n • \n Must have, or be able to obtain, a UK SC Clearance \n\n