Seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for a public sector client in a secure environment. Requires strong hands-on experience in AWS, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, automation, security, and containerization. Mandatory active SC clearance used within the last 12 months.
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Role: Senior DevOps Engineer
Contract: 12 months (Inside IR35)
Location: 100% Remote with occasional travel
Hours: 8 Hours per day
Clearance: Active SC required, used within the last 12 months
Mandatory requirement: Active SC clearance, used within the last 12 months. Candidates without this cannot be considered.
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to delivery into a public sector client. The role sits within a secure platform environment and requires strong hands-on engineering experience across AWS, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, automation, security and containerisation.
Essential Skills
- Strong experience as a Platform / DevOps Engineer, ideally 5+ years.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, including EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, Redshift and VPC.
- Strong Terraform / Infrastructure as Code experience, including designing, building and maintaining scalable, secure infrastructure.
- Strong experience with Git, GitLab and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Good understanding of DevOps principles, CI/CD automation, deployment, testing and monitoring.
- Scripting and automation experience using tools such as Python, Bash, Ansible and Terraform.
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, infrastructure security and compliance best practice.
- Experience reviewing code, improving quality, supporting refactoring and maintaining enterprise-level platforms.
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Desirable Skills
- Account Factory experience
- Suricata
- Ansible, Salt or Puppet
- Self-hosted GitLab CI and Artifactory administration
- AWS data services including Glue, Athena, Lake Formation and QuickSight
- Entra ID and Microsoft Active Directory
- GitLab Runners
- AWS Grafana and Prometheus
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Soft Skills
- Strong troubleshooting and critical thinking skills.
- Excellent communication and documentation ability.
- Able to work independently and lead technical discussions.
- Strong time management and attention to detail.
Reminder: Active SC clearance, used within the last 12 months, is mandatory for this role.
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