DevOps Engineer

Role: DevOps Engineer Rate: £400 - £450 (Inside IR35) Duration: 6+ Months Start Date: ASAP Location: Remote Clearance: Active SC Must have Government Experience Must have Helm & Docker Experience Key Responsibilities • Design, build, and manage infrastructure in AWS using IaC (Terraform preferred) • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar) • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK • Manage containerised services using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) • Collaborate with developers, security, and platform teams to improve deployment efficiency and reliability • Ensure cloud architecture aligns with best practices in scalability, availability, and cost optimisation • Drive automation and eliminate manual toil through scripting and tooling • Maintain robust security, including IAM, VPC configurations, and secrets management Required Skills & Experience • Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFormation/Terraform) • Solid understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD pipeline design • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) • CI / CD (ideally GitLab) • Helm • Docker • Containers (Kubernetes) - but not managing Kubernetes, using it as an app development • Proficient in scripting (Bash, Python, or similar) • Strong understanding of Linux system administration • Familiarity with Git-based workflows and version control best practices