Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
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Rayo, part of UBDS Group, designs, builds and operates secure, resilient cloud environments for public sector and other complex regulated clients.
The Senior AWS DevOps Engineer will lead the design, build and delivery of cloud infrastructure and automation.
This is a hands-on senior role with technical ownership, client engagement and responsibility for guiding other engineers.
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Role overview
Rayo, part of UBDS Group, designs, builds and operates secure, resilient cloud environments for public sector and other complex regulated clients.
The Senior AWS DevOps Engineer will lead the design, build and delivery of cloud infrastructure and automation.
This is a hands-on senior role with technical ownership, client engagement and responsibility for guiding other engineers.
What you will do
- Lead secure AWS cloud infrastructure and DevOps capability design, build and evolution.
- Design and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or GitHub.
- Own Terraform infrastructure-as-code approaches for repeatable, maintainable and compliant environments.
- Promote engineering standards, patterns and best practices across delivery teams.
- Embed automation across build, test, deployment and operational workflows.
- Apply DevSecOps and security-by-design principles throughout delivery.
- Design, deploy and operate Kubernetes workloads using AWS ECS and EKS.
- Implement monitoring, observability, logging and alerting for resilient services.
- Lead troubleshooting of complex infrastructure and deployment issues.
- Engage clients, mentor engineers and improve delivery reliability and efficiency.
What we are looking for
- Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain SC clearance; current SC clearance is highly desirable.
- Significant hands-on AWS experience across design, build and operations.
- Strong knowledge of AWS compute, networking, identity, security and container services.
- Strong GitLab or GitHub CI/CD pipeline experience and Terraform infrastructure-as-code expertise.
- Strong Kubernetes knowledge and experience operating cloud container workloads.
- Understanding of DevSecOps, OWASP principles and security-by-design.
- Experience with monitoring, logging and observability solutions.
- Strong scripting skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar.
- Experience making technical design decisions, leading engineering work and mentoring engineers.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, client communication and Agile delivery experience.
Desirable experience
- AWS Professional-level certification, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional or Solutions Architect Professional.
- Experience delivering solutions for public sector, defence or other regulated clients.
- Experience working in secure environments and understanding related security and assurance requirements.
- Experience contributing to technical designs, architecture decisions and engineering standards.
Employee benefits
- Training and personal development options are available across technical, business and methodology topics.
- Private medical cover, contributory pension scheme and death-in-service cover are provided.
- Employees receive 25 days of holiday plus birthday, work-anniversary and UK bank holidays.
- Benefits include an electric vehicle leasing scheme, discretionary bonus and professional development opportunities.
About UBDS Group
UBDS Group supports technology entrepreneurs across cloud services, cybersecurity, data and AI.
The group emphasizes innovation, employee development, collaboration and continuous improvement.
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