Infrastructure Support Engineer

Birmingham
3 days ago
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AWS Infrastructure Support Engineer (SC & NPPV3)

Permanent 

Birmingham (Hybrid)

£70,000- £75,000 + Bonus & Benefits

We are looking for experienced AWS Infrastructure Support Engineer and active SC clearance & NPPV3 clearance  is required for a permanent position based in Birmingham.  Windows and Linux system administration, including building, hardening, and managing Linux operating systems.

The role requires travel to Birmingham 4/5 days a week and an immediate start, ideally in May/June 2025.

A Chance to Work with a Leading Digital Transformation Business Delivering Large-scale, Long-term IT Projects for the Public Sector.

Key skills & experience:

Ideally experience with a broad range of 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.

Good experiences in Windows and Linux system administration, including building, hardening, and managing Linux operating systems.

Experience in automating processes using Shell, Ansible, Python, and PowerShell scripting.

Expertise in Juniper firewall configuration and patching and Proficiency in switch configuration and patching.

Experience with MS Active Directory configuration and management.

Monitoring using Grafana, Prometheus, Alert Manager and Node exporter.

Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.

Active SC Clearance & NPVV3 is required for this role.

Desired Skills / Experience:

Expertise in provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as Vagrant.  Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.

Knowledge of Jenkins pipeline using Groovy script.

Knowledge of Windows System Update Service and DFS Replication

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