DevOps Engineer
AWS Platform DevOps Engineer (SC & NPPV3)
6-month Contract
Birmingham (Hybrid)
£450-£500/day Outside IR35
We are seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer with AWS experience for a contract position based in Birmingham. The role requires travel to Birmingham 2-3 days a week and an immediate start, ideally in June/July 2025.
Active SC clearance (that has been used within the last 12 months) and NPPV3 (thats been used within the last 6 months) are required for this role.
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 (eg, 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 (eg, 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 (eg Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, Node exporter).
- Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on Digital or Technology projects at a government organisations.
- Knowledge of Windows System Update Service and DFS Replication.
- Linux system administration experience: 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).
- Experience with Windows Group Policy Objects and access/permissions control via GPO.
Reference: 2962517836
DevOps Engineer
Posted on Jun 10, 2025 by Syntax Consultancy
AWS Platform DevOps Engineer (SC & NPPV3)
6-month Contract
Birmingham (Hybrid)
£450-£500/day Outside IR35
We are seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer with AWS experience for a contract position based in Birmingham. The role requires travel to Birmingham 2-3 days a week and an immediate start, ideally in June/July 2025.
Active SC clearance (that has been used within the last 12 months) and NPPV3 (thats been used within the last 6 months) are required for this role.
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 (eg, 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 (eg, 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 (eg Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, Node exporter).
- Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on Digital or Technology projects at a government organisations.
- Knowledge of Windows System Update Service and DFS Replication.
- Linux system administration experience: 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).
- Experience with Windows Group Policy Objects and access/permissions control via GPO.
Reference: 2962517836
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