AWS DevOps Engineer

AWS DevOps Engineer-(Inside IR35)
Contract Term: 6 months
Contracting Authority: Cabinet Office – Chief Digital and Data Office (CDDO)
Location: Hybrid - London, Bristol, Manchester
Note: SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role
A part of the Cabinet Office, the Central Digital and Data Office leads the Government Digital and Data profession for government. We put the right conditions in place to achieve digital, data and technology transformation at scale by working with departments, and other government functions like commercial, project delivery and security professionals.
We are responsible for:
Technical delivery partner for the Government Cyber Coordination Centre Digital, Data and Technology Strategy and Standards, like the Technology Code of Practice, the Service Standard and Open Standards Cross-government DDaT performance and assurance, including Spend Controls DDaT Capability Development, including the DDaT pay framework
Securing Government Services (SGS) works on improving government organisations' cyber security posture and reducing common security risks.
What you’ll do:
As an AWS Senior DevOps Engineer, you will:
Support the development of medium-to-long term strategies for cross-government DevOps related product lines Identify and harvest best-practice, including code, from across central government departments for reuse Contribute and support a cross government code sharing repository, principles and methodologies Work with Technical Architects and colleagues in non-technical roles to design solutions for use across government that encourage industry best practice Collaborate with world leading cloud computing companies to develop and deliver solutions that enable departments to easily deploy infrastructure and services using code Innovate using the most up to date products and tools available in the market, in order to deliver complex architectures, for use across government Advocate best practice and technology in the profession across government Identify opportunity to achieve cost or scale efficiencies using technological innovation Test and evaluate technical solutions, to generate recommendations for use across government
Who you are:
This role requires you to
Have strong experience of creating and support of AWS technologies Have an active SC Clearance Be competent with a commonly used programming language, particularly Python, but JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Typescript Analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes, and work within a team of experts to deliver service improvements
Have an understanding of agile environments and similar working processes and the benefits they present Explain complex technology issues and an understanding of how they are relevant specifically to government Become a subject matter expert in areas, advising others within team and across government Have strong experience with a number of cloud technologies, e.g.
○ Cloud-native architectures
○ Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
○ Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
○ Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
○ Platform as a Service (PaaS)
○ Functions as a Service (FaaS) Be experienced in implementing technologies used for web applications, e.g., DNS, CDNs, load balancers, WAFs Have a systematic approach to solving problems Have a strong understanding of software design principles To be experienced with UNIX-like operating systems Have an understanding of modern web security principles and protocols Demonstrate experience in designing and building deployment pipelines Take ownership of specific technical workstreams
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