Role- DevOps Engineer (AWS) Location- Hammersmith, London Nature- 1/2 days onsite Defining and maintaining existing policies and procedures to ensure we align with best practices. Ensuring new processes are implemented correctly through training and education. Maintain and create infrastructure documentation. Ensuring system backups are monitored/maintained and tested on a regular basis. Monitor and maintain threat detection applications Develop and monitor a hardware security patching process that is completed on a monthly cycle. Manage the software and operating system life cycle for all products implemented within the business. Plan and implement updates as required. Monitor the current hardware and software estate to ensure products going end of life are scheduled for upgrading in a timely manner. Provisioning of infrastructure components within the AWS cloud environment required by the Development team. Maintain the asset register for all implemented hardware. Management of the change control system for applications. Implementation of system monitoring to ensure the environments are healthy. Early warning notifications should be activated enabling proactive resolution of potential incidents. Regular system log monitoring to comply with application requirements. Monitor and act upon Vantage application logs that indicate potential system or security issues. Actively manage Vantage users, this includes activation, creation and retirement tasks. Maintain application access control for external products (Jira/GitHub) Manage the Research data load process in AWS Redshift. Distribution of the monthly reports created by the Product Team analysts. Manage the annual Vantage penetration test and remediation tasks. Disaster recovery implementation in AWS (multiple zones) and regular testing to comply with business policies. Ensure the systems used by the business have two factor authentication implemented where possible. Implementation and monitoring of a Web Application Firewall to ensure systems are as secure a possible from intruder/actor penetration. Maintain access control records for all data held within the business unit. Management and onboarding of new services. Release management support. Degree level education, ideally in Information Technology but not essential. Relevant experience in a similar role (2-3 years minimum). Experience or interest in the healthcare and/or pharmaceutical sector. GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy