Desirable Skills:
- AWS skills and accreditation.
- Knowledge of COTS products such as Elasticsearch, NiFi, Rabbit, Kafka, MongoDB, Hadoop, Ansible, Git, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with dashboard monitoring and alerting tools (Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus).
- Familiarity with on-premise to cloud application migration.
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business purposes.
Job Opportunity: Senior AWS DevOps Specialist
Location: Fully Onsite Monday to Friday - Central London
Job Type: Permanent, Ongoing
Project Type: Exciting Government Project
Salary: £90,000 base salary plus benefits, perks and healthcare options
NOTE: WE ARE LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES ACTIVELY DV-CLEARED!
About the Role:
This role focuses on providing direct DevOps support and business consulting to a variety of customers. As part of a collaborative team, you'll contribute to IT development, security, and operations while optimizing and supporting technical systems for a diverse range of projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver functional, technical support, and optimization for managed service systems.
- Provide technical consultancy across multiple customer engagements, both remotely and on-site.
- Support the development, testing, release, and maintenance of customer products.
- Manage planned outages, deployments, upgrades, and major changes.
- Collaborate with business development teams to support service growth.
- Act as a subject-matter expert for 2nd and 3rd Line support queries.
- Produce high-quality project artefacts, technical designs, and documentation.
- Participate in daily Scrum or checkpoint meetings to manage incidents, upgrades, and escalations.
- Deliver clear and impactful progress updates to stakeholders, identifying risks and issues.
- Stay up-to-date by researching market approaches and emerging technologies.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience in DevOps or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of IT practices and products.
- Expertise in Linux/RHEL (v6x, 7x, and 8x).
- Proficiency in JavaScript, SQL, Java, Python, and Unix coding.
- Scripting skills and familiarity with AGILE methodologies.
- Experience using tools like JIRA and ServiceNow/OpenText Service Manager.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to adapt to different audiences.
- Ability to produce high-quality, detailed written reports.
- Active security clearance is essential.
Desirable Skills:
- AWS skills and accreditation.
- Knowledge of COTS products such as Elasticsearch, NiFi, Rabbit, Kafka, MongoDB, Hadoop, Ansible, Git, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with dashboard monitoring and alerting tools (Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus).
- Familiarity with on-premise to cloud application migration.
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business purposes.
What We Offer:
- Exciting projects with innovative customers.
- A collaborative and supportive team environment.
- Opportunities to enhance your technical expertise and certifications.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
If you're a proactive and talented professional looking for your next challenge, apply now to join our innovative DevOps Managed Service team.
We look forward to hearing from you!