AWS Devops Engineer (SC Cleared)

About Scrumconnect Consulting: Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. With a strong commitment to user-centred design and agile delivery, and more to deliver innovative digital services that matter Preferred Tech Stack Expertise Cloud Infrastructure : AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora, Elasti.

Cache, Kafka, IAM) Secure Hosting : Experience working with air-gapped or government-secure environments Container & Cluster Management : Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Jenkins, Helm Monitoring & Observability : Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Dynatrace Secrets & Identity Management : Hashi. Corp Vault, Keycloak CI/CD & DevOps Tooling : Jenkins, Git, Service.

Now, Trivy, Terraform Streaming & Messaging : Apache Kafka (including Kafka Replication) Data Layers : PostgreSQL, Redis, RDLs Automation : IaC, pipeline build automation, event relay tooling Scripting : Bash, Python, Groovy, Lambda functions Responsibilities Run, manage, and continuously evolve the AWS and secure on-premise environments to ensure availability .

Lead Level 3 (L3) production support and non-production environment maintenance, including 24/7 on-call support . Ensure all services are compliant with security standards and support the change and release governance model . Build and maintain infrastructure components like event streaming (Kafka), databases (Aurora, RDS, Redis), identity management (Keycloak), and caching layers.

Enhance and maintain CI/CD tooling and self-service developer pipelines for tenant teams. Proactively manage and resolve tech debt by working with central governance bodies and ensure visibility to the board. Increase automation, observability, and testing coverage across the platform components while enabling data-driven decision-making.

Align delivery with the product roadmap, collaborating with internal/external platform and infrastructure teams to support scalable and resilient services. Support critical national infrastructure tasks including platform deployments, incident/problem/change management, and continual service improvement (ITIL-aligned).

Use and integrate Service. Now (or its successor) to track and manage changes, incidents, requests, and problem records. Support replication services, match engines, secure data flows (Impex, Threat, Kafka replication) Diversity & Inclusion ​ At Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe that diversity drives innovation. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where every individual is respected, valued, and supported.

We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences, and we actively encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, underrepresented communities, and those seeking flexible working arrangements.