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Birmingham (Hybrid)

£450-£500/day Outside IR35

AWS DevOps Platform Engineer needed for a Contract position that  requires travel to Birmingham 2/3 days a week. ACTIVE SC clearance (that has been used within the last 12 months) and NPPV3 (that's 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 (e.g., 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 (e.g., 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 (e.g. 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

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