AWS DevOps Engineer (Fully Remote) - Leidos

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AWS DevOps Engineer

£47,500 - £60,900 • Fully Remote (UK)

Leidos is hiring an AWS DevOps Engineer to join the LCST Programme – supporting one of the UK’s most important defence supply chain modernisation efforts. If you’re hands-on with AWS, Terraform, automation, CI/CD, and SecDevOps, this is a proper meaty role with a lot of technical depth and impact.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build and manage secure AWS infrastructure (EC2, ECS/ECR, VPC, RDS, Lambda, IAM etc)
• Write IaC with Terraform + config management using Ansible
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins
• Automate everything you can (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Work with Docker, container orchestration, monitoring (CloudWatch), and secrets management
• Support deployments, troubleshooting, DR, patching, and performance optimisation
• Work fully in Agile/Scrum – planning, stand-ups, retros, the lot
• Design scalable, resilient, cost-efficient cloud-native solutions

What you’ll need:

• Strong AWS DevOps experience
• Hands-on with Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, scripting (Python/Bash/PowerShell)
• Experience with RedHat + Windows admin
• Good grounding in networking, security, routing, load balancers
• Comfortable with automation, CI/CD, troubleshooting, and cloud security best practices
• Must be a UK citizen + able to obtain SC clearance

Nice to have:

• AWS DevOps Pro cert
• Ansible, CloudFormation/CDK
• ITIL experience
• Knowledge of Active Directory/ADFS

If you want to work fully remote on high-impact defence and logistics systems, this one’s well worth a look.

Apply now via Haystack.