AWS DevOps Engineer - Lead

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.

We are seeking passionate and experienced Senior/Lead-level AWS DevOps specialists to join our engineering discipline. You will be empowered to apply your expertise in designing and implementing DevOps strategies to build national-scale cloud-hosted solutions that maximise performance, security, scalability, and adaptability. As a member of our engineering discipline, you will contribute to our ongoing commitment to applying modern DevOps best practices across both our engineering teams and client environments.

About Us

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.

Position

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.
• 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.

• 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 skills and 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.

 

Personal Qualities

• You are hands on, solving complex software problems.
• You lead by example, influencing others through a continuous demonstration of a strong DevOps mindset.
• Inquisitive, using critical thinking to ask lots of questions, overcome biases, break assumptions and consider different perspectives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy.
• Able to plan and organise your own work, effectively negotiating priorities crossing multiple teams across the business.
• Able to collaborate with other areas of the business to solve problems.
• Bring strong technical leadership to your team and the wider discipline.
• Able to explain difficult or sensitive topics; working to build consensus internally and with the wider business.
• Able to quickly learn and adapt to new DevOps practices and technologies.

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

• InformedACADEMY™ – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Monthly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals

*Qualifying period applies

Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.

We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of. 

We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produces great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.