Dev Ops SME

City of London
2 days ago
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Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (Test & Infrastructure Resilience)

Location: Remote Working

Security Clearance: Must be eligible for SC Clearance

6 Months Contract

£400 to £600 a day inside IR35

A top-tier consultancy firm is looking for an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer with a strong background in testing to help maintain and evolve Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) for a top UK client.

This is a pivotal role in maintaining critical national infrastructure where scalability and resilience are essential. We're looking for a highly skilled DevOps engineer with a strong background in testing (including APIs). The ideal candidate should be self-motivated and results-driven, capable of thriving in an Agile team. You'll need to be comfortable with Confluence for documentation and Jira for project tracking and story management.

Your main responsibility will be to develop and structure a comprehensive test framework. This includes creating approaches and plans, gaining approval for those approaches, and ultimately delivering a complex set of functional and performance tests for software components running within an AWS multi-account model. You will be working alongside client teams and supporting, as required, in a 3rd line capacity.

Key Technologies

Security & Service Mesh: Vault, Consul

Orchestration: Kubernetes

Cloud: Various AWS services (Compute, Identity)

Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, ELK

CI/CD: Jenkins

Scripting: Python, Ansible, and/or Bash

Networking (Advantage): Proxies and firewalls, including Fortinet and Palo Alto

Location: Remote Working | 6 Months Contract | £400 to £600 a day inside IR35

Security Clearance: Must be eligible for SC Clearance

If this seems of interest, please apply directly to the ad or send your CV to (url removed).

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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