AWS DevOps Engineer - Lead

📋 Job Overview

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.

🏢 About Informed Solutions

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.

🎯 The Role

A Senior or Lead Engineer (specialising in DevOps) oversees the planning, design, and implementation of robust DevOps strategies within their immediate project and across teams. This includes engaging with clients and colleagues to plan and deliver solutions that apply modern DevOps practices and principles.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• 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 DevOps 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 DevOps 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.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 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 DevOps techniques across team members, mentoring others on best practice.
• Planning skills with the ability to develop and implement DevOps methodologies that align with business objectives and project timelines.
• Background in Agile delivery environments, delivering software solutions in controlled increments (e.g., following Scrum, Agile Delivery phases, GDS Service Manual, etc.).
• Experience working with some, or all, of the following tools and technologies: GitHub Actions, Drone.io, Hashicorp Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Docker, Hashicorp Vagrant, AWS CloudWatch, AWS EventBridge, AWS Security Hub (and supporting technologies), AWS CI/CD technologies (CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy), AWS Systems Manager.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience working in a professional services/consultancy environment preferred.
• Experience applying DevOps tools and techniques with other major cloud providers (Azure, Google Cloud).
• Awareness of the GOV.UK Digital Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice is preferred.
• Ability to deliver as part of multiple projects, concurrently across multiple teams.
• Ability to explain and simplify complex information to stakeholders.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

No specific visa or eligibility information provided.