Lead DevOps

Description Methods is a 100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.

Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet.

We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.

Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022.The role is heavily AWS platform engineering focused. While Azure and Dev Sec Ops  experience are valuable, the day-to-day work is centred on designing, maintaining and improving AWS-hosted Identity platforms running on Kubernetes and ECS.This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will be expected to lead by example, mentor engineers, influence technical decisions and own services throughout their lifecycle.

Requirements Core Technical SkillsAWSExpected to have strong hands-on experience across AWS services including:

ECSEKSEC2

IAMAuto Scaling GroupsKMSCloudHSMSecrets Manager Systems Manager Parameter Store Cloud Watch This  is an engineering role rather than an infrastructure administration role.

Infrastructure as Code Strong Terraform experience is expected.

This includes:

Writing production-quality Terraform Creating and maintaining reusable Terraform modules

Managing multiple environments using Terraform Work spaces Reviewing and improving existing modules

Following engineering standards and code review practices

KubernetesA high level of Kubernetes knowledge is expected.

Daily work includes:

Deploying and operating applications on Amazon EKSTroubleshooting workloads

Working with Deployments, Services, Ingress, Config Maps and Secrets Understanding RBACResource requests and limits

Horizontal Pod Autoscaling Network Policies Kubernetes troubleshooting

HelmHelm is used extensively.

You will be expected to:

Write Helm charts

Maintain existing charts

Build reusable templates

Manage values across environments

Debug Helm deployments

This is a core skill for the role.

ECSA significant amount of the estate still runs on ECS.Expected knowledge includes:

ECS Services Task Definitions Auto Scaling Groups Capacity Providers Deployment strategies

Operational troubleshooting

The team owns the ECS platform.

Docker Almost every application is containerised.

Expected experience:

Building images

Writing Dockerfiles Multi-stage builds

Image optimisation

Container troubleshooting

GitLab & CI/CDAll source code is hosted in Git Lab.

CI/CD is implemented using Git Lab CI.Expected experience includes:

Writing Git Lab CI pipelines

Maintaining reusable pipeline fragments and templates

Building and maintaining reusable CI/CD components

Managing multi-stage deployment pipelines across Development, Test, Stage and Production Pipeline troubleshooting

Secure secret handling

Build and deployment automation

Testing & Quality Engineering Testing is considered part of delivering a feature, not an optional activity.

Lead Engineers are expected to understand how to test infrastructure, platform code and applications, and to integrate those tests into automated delivery pipelines.

Expected experience includes:

Writing and maintaining Terraform Tests…