AWS DevOps Engineer - Lead

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK's most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place. You'll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges. At a certified Great Place to Work® you'll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

We are seeking passionate and experienced Senior/Lead-level AWS Dev Ops specialists to join our engineering discipline. You will be empowered to apply your expertise in designing and implementing Dev Ops strategies to build national-scale cloud-hosted solutions that maximise performance, security, scalability, and adaptability. As a member of our engineering discipline, you will contribute to our ongoing commitment to applying modern Dev Ops best practices across both our engineering teams and client environments.

Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen's Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

A Senior or Lead Engineer (specialising in Dev Ops) oversees the planning, design, and implementation of robust Dev Ops strategies within their immediate project and across teams. This includes:

• Engaging with clients and colleagues to plan and deliver solutions that apply modern Dev Ops practices and principles
• Designing and implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines to automate the deployment of software and infrastructure changes through client-owned test and live environments
• Identifying and configuring automated tools to ensure the performance, security, and scalability of solutions
• Providing subject matter expertise on Dev Ops practices and techniques to both internal and client teams
• Proactively identifying and implementing improvements within projects, and where applicable, across the company
• Influencing company-wide Dev Ops best practices, standards, tools, and artefacts, and leading efforts to drive adoption across the company
• Being an active member of the Engineering discipline, promoting the professional development of others, building new capability, and sharing best practice
• Supporting the ongoing growth of Informed's Engineering capability by helping to recruit technical staff and contributing to InformedACADEMYTM
• Getting involved in events and industry forums, staying up to date with the latest technology, services, techniques and methods, and bringing the latest innovations into our work

• Capability designing and implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines for deploying software through environments, up to and including Production
• Hands-on experience applying zero-downtime deployment patterns in Production environments
• Skilled in managing cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code technologies
• Understanding of distributed systems and container orchestration
• Experience with Git-based version control systems for managing solution source code
• Proven capability using bash and shell scripting for task automation
• Experience configuring Continuous Integration pipelines to run and report on the outcome of automated tests (both functional and non-functional)
• Expertise in maintaining and continuously improving the security posture of live systems (for example, using automated vulnerability detection and patching technologies)
• Experience overseeing the implementation of Dev Ops techniques across team members, mentoring others on best practice
• Planning skills with the ability to develop and implement Dev Ops methodologies that align with business objectives and project timelines
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