We are looking for AWS DevOps Engineer to work with Secured Government client.

Please note: Must be willing to undergo security clearance

Key responsibilities include:

• Design and implement automated build and deployment solution for Java based micro service applications utilizing Atlassian Jira/Gillam/Jenkins/Artifactory/Ansible and Terraform
• Ensuring that the team and client understand operational requirements, and take a shared responsibility for designing and implementing infrastructure for delivering and running software services
• Serve as key liaison between management, technical development/QA teams and Operations
• Discover and capitalize on automation opportunities that provide business value
• Experienced with large-scale CI/CD implementations and source code implementations
• Involve in troubleshooting activities to solve technical challenges
• Monitor progress on projects and provides technical direction as needed
• Develop effective working relationships with development teams both internal to HMRC and with
• Third Party suppliers
• Familiar working within an Agile working environment
• Develop and maintain lightweight systems documentation
• Mentor junior team members

Essential Skills:

• Experience with Enterprise Jenkins to create reusable pipelines across projects
• Understanding of the Linux Operating System, standard network protocols and security hardening.
• Proven experience using AWS Cloud Solutions and services such as Ec2, S3, Lambda, EKS, API
• Gateway, ALB, API Gateway, Autoscaling etc
• In-depth knowledge in Infrastructure-as-code tools (such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
• Mandatory experience in creating automation framework using Ansible
• Strong in one or two Scripting and programming languages (such as Python/Perl, Groovy, Shell Scripting, etc.)
• Knowledge of SCM branch strategies using Git
• Experience with unit testing and automated testing tools (such as ReadyApi, Cucumber etc.)
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes (Preferably EKS)
• Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in AWS cloud environment across multiple environments
• Experience with deploying, supporting and supervising new and existing services, platforms and application stacks
• Experience in defining quality gates (integrating SonarQube Static Code analysis, running Regression suites, etc.) In the delivery pipeline
• Understanding and experience with a variety of deployment approaches
• Knowledge of development concepts (REST, JSON, YML etc.)

Desirable Skills

• Proficient with defect/issue tracking tools such as JIRA
• Knowledge of Hashicorp Packer for AMI creation and Hashicorp Vault for secrets are desirable
• Knowledge of Queues (IBM MQ and RabbitMQ) and monitoring tools (Elastic Stack, AppDynamics) are preferable
• Passion for and ability to work with software development teams releasing production-ready Software daily
• Willingness to take ownership, be held accountable and achieve a good outcome for all stakeholders through effective collaboration
• Eagerness to learn enough new tools or tricks required to get the job done
• Good attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communications with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels