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DevOps Engineer (SC & NPPV3 Required)

Permanent 

Birmingham (Hybrid)

£70,000- £75,000 + Benefits

We are seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer with AWS experience for a Permanent position based in Birmingham. Active SC clearance and NPPV3 are required for this role.

The role requires travel to Birmingham 4/5 days a week and an immediate start, ideally in Summer 2025.

A Chance to Work with a Leading Digital Transformation Business Delivering Large-scale, Long-term IT Projects for the Public Sector.

Key Skills & Experience:

Good experience with AWS technologies (e.g., EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an AWS-based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.

Provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as Vagrant.

Experience with DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.

Strong scripting skills (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell, Perl, JAVA) and automation skills.

Thorough knowledge of Jenkins and pipeline using Groovy script.

Experience with Docker containers and Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.

Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, and Node exporter).

Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.

Active SC Clearance & NPVV3 is required for this role.

Desired Skills and Experience:

Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on Digital or Technology projects at a government organisations.

Linux system administration experience, including building, hardening, and managing Linux operating systems.  MS Active Directory configuration and management.

Firewall and switch configuration and patch management.  Understanding of network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP)