# DevOps Engineer (AWS)

**Company**: Cabinet Office
**Location**: City of Westminster, Greater London, England
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 59,207 - 70,958 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Cabinet Office is seeking a DevOps Engineer (AWS) to join their Platform Engineering team. You will be responsible for the development, deployment, and ongoing operation of organisational platforms and tools within the Cabinet Office.

As a DevOps Engineer embedded in an Agile team, you’ll:

- Develop, deploy, document and maintain digital platforms, mainly Azure, GitHub, and DevOps tooling and processes.

- Monitor, manage and optimise platform infrastructure to ensure stability, scalability, and performance.

- Implement and promote best practices for cloud engineering, security, and compliance.

- Lead the automation of deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and operational processes.

- Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning for cloud platforms.

- Contribute to FinOps initiatives by analysing costs and recommending optimisation strategies.

- Collaborate with product managers and architects to define platform strategies and priorities.

- Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

- Stay up to date with industry trends, service developments, and best practices in the DevOps domain.

- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members.

The primary focus of this role will be AWS, but you will also develop your skills for Azure, allowing for a multi-functional approach to our platform management.

**Essential criteria:**

- Extensive hands-on experience in managing AWS organisation and services like AWS Control Tower, Account Factory for Terraform, and identity management using IAM Identity Centre, Microsoft Entra ID and OKTA.

- Deep understanding of network services (VPC, ALB, NLB, NAT, NACL and Route 53) and security configurations (Security Groups, SCP and KMS).

- Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks like Terraform and CloudFormation.

- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure issues and optimise system performance.

- Strong scripting and automation skills using tools such as AWS Lambda, Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

- Hands-on experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and orchestration using AWS ECS and AWS EKS.

- Proven track record in designing, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure at scale.

- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and experience with tools like AWS CodeBuild, CodePipeline, GitHub Actions and other.

- Experience implementing and managing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, ELK, PagerDuty and other similar tools.

- Practical experience in optimisation of cost and resource utilisation within cloud platforms (FinOps).

**Benefits:**

- Salary: £59,207 - £70,958 per year

- Cabinet Office contributes £17,152 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

- Learning and development tailored to your role.

- An environment with flexible working options.

- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.

- A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.

- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

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## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Azure
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Python
- Bash
- PowerShell
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD pipelines
- CloudWatch
- CloudTrail
- ELK
- PagerDuty
- FinOps

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