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