AWS DevOps engineer - hybrid

Description

We're on the lookout for contract AWS DevOps engineers for our consultancy partner who are supporting a major UK Government Agency on a large-scale cloud transformation programme to join a high-performing delivery team. The role is paying £500-£550 inside IR35, and will involve weekly visits to their London HQ.

You will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and platform services within a secure AWS environment. Working alongside architects, developers, security specialists, and product teams, you will help drive DevOps best practices and ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of critical services.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient AWS cloud infrastructure.

Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and related tooling.

Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery.

Automate deployment, monitoring, and operational processes.

Collaborate with development and platform teams to embed DevOps principles and best practices.

Implement cloud security controls and ensure compliance with government standards.Required Skills & Experience

Essential

Strong commercial experience as a DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or Platform Engineer. xjnqpsq

Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services including:

EC2

VPC

IAM

Route 53

RDS

S3

CloudWatch

Lambda

ECS and/or EKS

Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.

Ad ID: 5419315920