Job Description

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Hybrid (Ideally Plymouth 60% on site – other sites available)

IR35: Inside

Rate: £700/day (Umbrella) MAX

Duration: Until 31/3/25 initially

Minimum Requirement:

Candidates MUST have experience with:

• Lakeformation
• Glue
• Athena
• Sagemaker

API Gateway

The Senior DevOps Engineer is part of the IT Operations Practice which sits within the Digital, Data and Technology directorate whose responsibility is for the performance and delivery of all technical infrastructure which, underpins and supports the organisation. It consists of technical teams which provide support, monitor and operate technical solutions.

The DevOps function is responsible for working with our IT software development teams to support the delivery of the platform and infrastructure for our new micro service applications as part of the digital transformation of our internal and external services. Engineers are responsible for configuration, administration and support of the infrastructure using a DevOps methodology across multiple cloud infrastructures, ensuring they are secure, performant, supportable whilst following an agile approach to incremental delivery.

This role is to provide technical engineering capability for the Web Operations team, responsible for supporting production systems and working with Agile development teams to delivery new services in a highly available and supportable configuration using DevOps processes and tooling providing. The Senior DevOps Engineer will provide technical leadership within the team, settings standards and championing them. They will engage with other DevOps Engineers, as well as coach and support DevOps engineer and Junior DevOps Engineers.

Essential Experience:

• Strong experience of AWS API Gateway supporting the development of RESTful APIs, Sagemaker Studio, Lambda and supporting AWS data services such as ElastiCache (Redis), Glue, SQS, Athena and Kafka
• Experience in working in DevOps and Agile environments
• Hands-on experience with Terraform to create, manage, and modify infrastructure
• Scripting/Programming experience (e.g. Groovy, Python, Java, Go)

60% office attendance, this does not have to be Plymouth

Security Clearance: SC Cleared & Uk National

To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on 0121 794 8181

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant   

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on 0121 794 8181.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.