-AWS Platform Developer/ DevOps Engineer – Outside IR35
-Edinburgh with Remote
-6 months Initial Contract
-Immediate Start
Seasoned Platform Developer / DevOps Engineer required to provide hands-on technical skills and experience as well as supporting delivery across the wider business. You will act as SME in this space, providing technical leadership and be an advocate for best practices. The role will also require you to simplify and standardise the approach to Infrastructure as Code across the wider team.
My client are currently working along their journey to move from on premise project work to a Cloud-based offering (AWS). You will be tasked with the design, build and ongoing support of the internal platforms that allow value add and the successful candidate will work closely with product teams, ensuring platforms are resilient and fit for purpose. You will also be experienced working in an Agile environment, be a keen collaborator and possess excellent stakeholder management.
My client will consider candidates from a range of backgrounds, but experience working within an AWS environment is essential. Specifically, you will have a strong technical foundation in build and release environments in a previous role. You will also offer a good blend of technical skills including Jenkins, Ansible, AWS CI/CD tooling and a familiarisation with containerised platforms.
Skills and Experience Summary (A blend of);
- Designing and building platforms in AWS
- AWS Serverless technologies
- Openshift technology
- CI/CD methodology and native AWS CI/CD tooling.
- Defining infrastructure as code
- Introducing automated testing to AWS environments and build processes
- Introducing new efficient processes or concepts within the AWS environment
- Working in the Agile delivery models – such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks
- AWS Lambda, CDK, S3, Cloud Formation, API Gateway, EC2, AMIs
- GuardDuty, Transit Gateway, AWS Configuration
- Scripting expertise – Python, Bash, Ansible, Groovy
- Jenkins and Ansible
- Experience with AWS Security and Networks
- Observability and Telemetry
- Experience across security, performance, deployability
- Strong stakeholder management
- Keen collaborator
Additional Expertise (desirable);
- Provide technical leadership across the platform team
- Be an advocate for DevOps best practices
- Build and maintain an agile culture of continuous delivery and improvement
- Championing ideas and changes to key stakeholders
- Working as a consumer of platform services
- Working in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle
- Containerised platforms – Openshift or Kubernetes
- Enterprise-level software builds and integration
- Deploying applications to cloud using PaaS and SaaS
The above is not exhaustive. For further information on this opportunity please forward an updated CV to [email protected]