Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Senior AWS Dev Ops Engineer for a 12 month (Inside IR35) hybrid contract based up to 3 days per week in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds or Newcastle.

An active SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. (Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.)

Team Galaxy owns and runs the shared platform services that engineering teams across DWP Digital depend on to build and ship software, including Git Lab, Git Hub Enterprise, Nexus, vulnerability management, and the build and deploy infrastructure.

• Keep Team Galaxy's core platforms reliable, secure, and well-maintained so that engineering teams across DWP Digital can deliver software without interruption. Automate and improve platform operations to reduce toil, lower the risk of incidents, and raise the standard of delivery across consuming teams.
• Support engineering teams in getting the most out of the tools we provide, acting as a knowledgeable and approachable point of contact through our support channel.
• Contribute to keeping the software supply chain secure through vulnerability scanning, dependency management, patching, and artifact management practices.
• Share knowledge openly through documentation, runbooks, and day-to-day collaboration.

• Administer Git Hub Enterprise and Git Lab at an enterprise scale, managing repositories, groups, access controls, and integrations across a large, multi-team organisation.
• Lead and deliver repository migration work, including moving repositories from Git Hub Enterprise to Git Lab, managing the migration pipeline, and supporting teams through the transition.
• Design, build, and maintain Git Lab CI/CD pipelines, including reusable pipeline templates and blueprints consumed by teams across DWP Digital.

• Administer Nexus Repository Manager at an enterprise scale: configure and maintain hosted, proxy, and group repositories across multiple package formats (Maven, npm, Docker, and others).
• Investigate and resolve Nexus incidents and support teams with connectivity and authentication issues.

• Operate and develop Wiz integration for container and infrastructure vulnerability scanning across the Galaxy estate.
• Manage Renovate configuration for automated dependency updates, including automerge policies and security enforcement across consuming repositories.
• Own OS and software patching for the EC2 fleet in AWS, planning and executing patching cycles, tracking compliance, and responding to critical patch requirements.

• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines using Git Lab Pipelines and Jenkins, including shared pipeline components and reusable Terraform Blueprints.
• Manage containerised workload deployments using Docker and AWS ECS.
• Write and maintain Terraform to manage infrastructure, IAM policies, and pipeline integrations.
• Manage Git Lab Runner infrastructure: registration, concurrency configuration, and patching.

• Work in an agile Kanban team, attending daily stand-up and contributing to delivery planning.

• Strong hands-on experience designing and building Git Lab CI/CD pipelines, including reusable pipeline templates.

• Experience administering Git Hub Enterprise and/or Git Lab at enterprise scale. Candidates should have delivered repository migration work, ideally moving repositories from Git Hub to Git Lab, and be familiar with the challenges of doing this at scale across a large organisation.

• Hands-on experience administering Nexus at an enterprise level: configuring and managing repositories across multiple package formats, lifecycle policies, certificate management, and integration with CI/CD tooling.

• Experience…