Job Opportunity: Senior AWS DevOps Specialist

Location: Fully Onsite Monday to Friday – Central London

Job Type: Permanent, Ongoing

Project Type: Exciting Government Project

Salary: £90,000 base salary plus benefits, perks and healthcare options

NOTE: WE ARE LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES ACTIVELY DV-CLEARED!

About the Role:

This role focuses on providing direct DevOps support and business consulting to a variety of customers. As part of a collaborative team, you’ll contribute to IT development, security, and operations while optimizing and supporting technical systems for a diverse range of projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver functional, technical support, and optimization for managed service systems.
• Provide technical consultancy across multiple customer engagements, both remotely and on-site.
• Support the development, testing, release, and maintenance of customer products.
• Manage planned outages, deployments, upgrades, and major changes.
• Collaborate with business development teams to support service growth.
• Act as a subject-matter expert for 2nd and 3rd Line support queries.
• Produce high-quality project artefacts, technical designs, and documentation.
• Participate in daily Scrum or checkpoint meetings to manage incidents, upgrades, and escalations.
• Deliver clear and impactful progress updates to stakeholders, identifying risks and issues.
• Stay up-to-date by researching market approaches and emerging technologies.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience in DevOps or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of IT practices and products.
• Expertise in Linux/RHEL (v6x, 7x, and 8x).
• Proficiency in JavaScript, SQL, Java, Python, and Unix coding.
• Scripting skills and familiarity with AGILE methodologies.
• Experience using tools like JIRA and ServiceNow/OpenText Service Manager.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to adapt to different audiences.
• Ability to produce high-quality, detailed written reports.
• Active security clearance is essential.

Desirable Skills:

• AWS skills and accreditation.
• Knowledge of COTS products such as Elasticsearch, NiFi, Rabbit, Kafka, MongoDB, Hadoop, Ansible, Git, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with dashboard monitoring and alerting tools (Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus).
• Familiarity with on-premise to cloud application migration.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business purposes.

What We Offer:

• Exciting projects with innovative customers.
• A collaborative and supportive team environment.
• Opportunities to enhance your technical expertise and certifications.

Ready to Take the Next Step?

If you’re a proactive and talented professional looking for your next challenge, apply now to join our innovative DevOps Managed Service team.

We look forward to hearing from you!