Are you passionate about working with cutting-edge technology and self-motivated to find innovative solutions to complex challenges as part of a team who help keep the UK safe?
I have an exciting opportunity to join a growing Government Defence business unit as a DV Cleared AWS Platform Engineer at one of their offices in London, Manchester or Leeds. As a key member of a Cloud Platform Team, you'll be working with our National Security Customers to build infrastructure platforms on AWS that Product Engineering teams use to build core mission applications.
You'll work as part of empowered, autonomous teams with regular contact with Engineering teams and end-users to flexibly and efficiently understand, design, develop, deploy and maintain infrastructure platforms on AWS. You'll be encouraged to identify new ways of solving problems and get to work in a range of different teams across our customer organisations. You will work in a small team given as much ownership and responsibility as you have the appetite for but part of a much bigger Engineering community to give you the support you need to grow in your career.
You
To succeed within the role of an AWS Platform Engineer, you'll have experience in a similar position, and many of the following skills:
1. Plenty of experience in AWS and experience in solving complex business issues; regarded as an AWS subject matter expert
2. Demonstrable expertise designing and building with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, KMS, ELB, SNS, SQS, IAM
3. Scripting abilities with languages such as Shell, Bash, or Python
4. A working knowledge of Linux, networking, routing & firewalls etc
5. Strong understanding of operational concepts on AWS, particularly monitoring and observability, FinOps
6. Proficient in Infrastructure as Code technologies (eg CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform)
7. Source controlling your code with Version Control Systems, for example Git, Mercurial, Perforce
8. Great communication and problem solving skills, and a desire to learn new technologies
9. Working in an Agile environment (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc)
Due to security nature and urgency for this role, we can only consider those with live and transferrable UK*C Enhanced DV security clearance used within the last 12 months. Unfortunately UKSV/MOD DV clearance cannot be considered for this role.
How to apply
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