AWS DevOps Engineer

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced hands-on AWS DevOps Engineer to join the LCST Programme team. As part of a high-performing Agile team, you will design, implement, and support secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using a tailored SAFe Agile SecDevOps Scrum process. You'll apply DevOps best practices and cloud-native design principles, leveraging AWS services and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to drive automation and continuous delivery across environments.

This role also includes hands-on work with automated testing, deployments, and infrastructure monitoring—alongside participation in Agile ceremonies, risk mitigation activities, and collaborative solution design. Cross-functional flexibility across systems engineering, software development, testing, and security is highly valued.

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated experience in managing source code with GIT, including pull requests, branching strategies (Trunk-based, GitFlow), and collaborative version control workflows
• Expertise in designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure, including services like EC2, ECR, ECS, ECK, ASG, VPC, RDS, Load Balancers, Lambda, IAM, ports, R53 etc
• Strong proficiency in IAC using Terraform and Ansible to provision, configure, and maintain secure and scalable cloud environments
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, implementing automation for building, testing, and deploying applications across multiple environments
• Proven ability to write and maintain scripts and automation tools using Bash, Python, and PowerShell to enhance operational workflows and eliminate manual tasks
• Familiarity with containerisation using Docker and orchestration best practices, along with configuration management using Ansible.
• Knowledge of secrets management and access control using tools like Vault and IAM policies, ensuring secure handling of credentials and sensitive information
• Strong understanding of AWS security best practices, including encryption, patching, monitoring, least privilege access, and compliance requirements.
• Hands-on experience in implementing and managing backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data protection and business continuity]
• Ability to implement robust monitoring and logging solutions e.g., CloudWatch, to ensure system reliability, observability, and proactive incident response
• Comfortable working in Agile development teams, translating business requirements into technical solutions, and actively participating in sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups
• Capability to design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions that meet availability and performance objectives
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and implement effective mitigation strategies in complex environments
• Understanding of routing, traffic management, and load balancing, including configuration of NGINX and AWS-native tools for optimizing traffic flow.
• Experience with structured release and change management processes, including deployment governance, rollback strategies, and versioning control.
• Awareness of Java application environments and deployment considerations is a plus for supporting platform-wide consistency and integrations
• Proactive mindset with a continuous improvement attitude, regularly identifying opportunities to enhance delivery pipelines, infrastructure, and development practices
• Proficiency in designing and managing SNS topics for event-driven architectures, integrating notifications with Lambda, or external systems to support decoupled and scalable cloud workflows
• Hands-on experience using Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket to support Agile delivery, documentation, collaboration, and CI/CD pipeline management
• Working knowledge of Active Directory and ADFS for identity and access management, including group policy management, SSO, and integration with cloud authentication services

Application Requirements:

• Hands-on experience:
  • in any programming language e.g. python, bash, powershell, etc
  • in Redhat OS
  • in AWS OR Azure OR any other cloud provider
  • as Redhat and windows Admin
  • in containerised solution
  • in supporting application troubleshooting
  • IAC – terraform
  • App config - ansible or any other like puppet
  • CI/CD pipeline like Jenkins or Azure devops or bamboo, etc
  • Any Automation

Desired Skills:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or equivalent certification
• Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
• Experience with Ansible for configuration management
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash)
• ITIL Foundation Certification or experience with ITIL-based environments

Interview Requirements:

• This role will involve a two-stage interview process:
  • First stage: face to face video competency-based interview covering your experience and transferable skills/application requirements into the role
  • Second stage: face to face in person interview at our Bristol office, this will include a technical test aligned around the application requirement capabilities

Clearance Requirements:

• Clearance to Start BPSS
• Clearance for Role SC
• Must be a UK Citizen and based in UK for the duration
• Must have, or be able to obtain, a UK SC Clearance