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SC Cleared AWS Engineer

Manchester
6 days ago
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I am working with a consultancy feeding into the public sector who are on the lookout for an SC cleared AWS DevOps engineer.

Weekly travel to Manchester/ Leeds/ Newcastle
Inside IR35
6 month
Active SC
£400 per day
Immediate start

The skillset
·       Support the standing up multiple environments on AWS
·       Support the management of the AWS stack / Git pipelines across mix of React front-end, microservices, lambda functions,

Kafka integration, possible mix of Transit Gateway / Private Link, use of Kong EE
·       MFA / IAM role management for team of developers
·       Correctly tagging cloud resources per DWP central FinOps standards
 
Skills required:
REQUIRED/NON-NEGOTIABLE: Full AWS stack (inc. Lambda, SQS, SNS), IAM management for pipelines and users, blue/green deployment experience, Terraform or Cloud Formation, Prometheus, CloudWatch
NICE TO HAVE: SonarQube, Wiz, FinOps tagging experience (apptio), Kafka, Kong EE, Dynatrace, micro-UI patterns (jwt tokenisation and passthrough)

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