AWS Devops Engineer

Job description

Description

AWS DevOps Engineer

Programme Name: LCST

Location: Remote, with attendance at Leidos UK Bristol or Customer sites as required

We’re ready for you to unleash your potential!

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced hands-on AWS DevOps Engineer to join the LCST Programme team. As part of a high-performing Agile team, you will design, implement, and support secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using a tailored SAFe Agile SecDevOps Scrum process. You'll apply DevOps best practices and cloud-native design principles, leveraging AWS services and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to drive automation and continuous delivery across environments.

This role also includes hands-on work with automated testing, deployments, and infrastructure monitoring—alongside participation in Agile ceremonies, risk mitigation activities, and collaborative solution design. Cross-functional flexibility across systems engineering, software development, testing, and security is highly valued.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Demonstrate experience in managing source code with GIT, including pull requests, branching strategies and collaborative version control workflows

- Experience in designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure, including services like EC2, ECR, ECS, ECK, ASG, VPC, RDS, Load Balancers, Lambda, IAM, ports, R53 etc

- Familiarity in IAC using Terraform and Ansible to provision, configure, and maintain secure and scalable cloud environments

- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, implementing automation for building, testing, and deploying applications across multiple environments

- Ability to write and maintain scripts and automation tools using Bash, Python, and PowerShell to enhance operational workflows and eliminate manual tasks

- Familiarity with containerisation using Docker and orchestration best practices, along with configuration management using Ansible.

- Knowledge of secrets management and access control using tools like Vault and IAM policies, ensuring secure handling of credentials and sensitive information

- Understanding of AWS security best practices, including encryption, patching, monitoring, least privilege access, and compliance requirements.

- Familiarity in implementing and managing backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data protection and business continuity]

- Ability to implement monitoring and logging solutions e.g., CloudWatch, to ensure system reliability, observability, and proactive incident response

- Comfortable working in Agile development teams, translating business requirements into technical solutions, and actively participating in sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups

- Familiarity to design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions that meet availability and performance objectives

- Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and implement effective mitigation strategies in complex environments

- Understanding of routing, traffic management, and load balancing, including configuration of NGINX and AWS-native tools for optimizing traffic flow.

- Familiarity with structured release and change management processes, including deployment governance, rollback strategies, and versioning control.

- Awareness of Java application environments and deployment considerations is a plus for supporting platform-wide consistency and integrations

- Proactive mindset with a continuous improvement attitude, regularly identifying opportunities to enhance delivery pipelines, infrastructure, and development practices

- Familiarity in designing and managing SNS topics for event-driven architectures, integrating notifications with Lambda, or external systems to support decoupled and scalable cloud workflows

- Experience using Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket to support Agile delivery, documentation, collaboration, and CI/CD pipeline management

- Working knowledge of Active Directory and ADFS for identity and access management, including group policy management, SSO, and integration with cloud authentication services

Application Requirements:

- Hands-on experience:

- in any programming language e.g. python, bash, powershell, etc

- in Redhat OS

- in AWS OR Azure OR any other cloud provider

- as Redhat and windows Admin

- in containerised solution

- in supporting application troubleshooting

- IAC – terraform

- App config - ansible or any other like puppet

- CI/CD pipeline like Jenkins or Azure devops or bamboo, etc

- Any Automation

Preferred Qualifications:

- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or equivalent certification

- Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation

- Experience with Ansible for configuration management

- Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash)

- ITIL Foundation Certification or experience with ITIL-based environments

Clearance Requirements:

- BPSS pre-screening required to start

- Clearance for Role SC

- Must be a UK Citizen and based in UK for the duration

- Must have, or be able to obtain, a UK SC Clearance

? Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction...

What we do for you:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme

• Private Medical Insurance

• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)

• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

• Flexible Working Scheme

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you