Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer

Your new company
You'll be joining a public sector organisation that plays a key role in setting standards, governance and best practice across its field in the UK. The organisation has a strong digital focus and is continuing to modernise its cloud infrastructure and deployment practices to support internal users and external stakeholders. The environment is collaborative, stable and supportive, with a strong emphasis on security, reliability and long-term improvement rather than short-term delivery.

Your new role
As an Infrastructure Engineer, you'll support and develop a modern AWS-based infrastructure while working closely with developers to improve application delivery and deployment processes. This role offers a clear progression path into a DevOps position, providing hands-on exposure to automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud engineering practices.
You'll take ownership of day-to-day cloud infrastructure operations, while gradually increasing your involvement in DevOps tooling and workflows such as CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.

Benefits include:

• 33.75-hour working week, shorter than the standard 37.5 hours
• Remote working options to support work-life balance
• 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, with additional leave accrued through service
• Generous pension scheme, with employer contributions of up to 12%
• Private medical insurance and health insurance options

Key responsibilities include:

• Maintaining, patching and monitoring AWS Linux Servers and services
• Building, configuring, documenting and retiring cloud infrastructure resources
• Managing AWS services including EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, IAM, Route 53, Load Balancers, Auto Scaling, Security Groups and CloudFront
• Supporting SQL databases (Postgres or MySQL), including installation, backup, restore and migration
• Monitoring cloud usage and costs and suggesting efficiency improvements
• Installing and configuring web and application software (Apache, Nginx, PHP, Python)
• Managing Cloudflare DNS and Firewall configuration
• Installing, configuring and renewing SSL certificates
• Contributing to CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Supporting the security, patching and modernisation of Legacy systems

What you'll need to succeed:

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure
• Good Linux systems administration experience
• Experience working with SQL databases (Postgres or MySQL)
• Exposure to CI/CD, ideally using GitHub Actions
• Confidence using the command line
• Shell Scripting experience (bash, sh, YAML)
• DNS configuration and SSL certificate management knowledge
• Understanding of networking concepts such as VPCs, subnets and security groups

Desirable experience includes:

• Cloudflare
• Infrastructure-as-Code tools
• Azure exposure
• Docker
• PHP or Python
• SQL querying

What you'll get in return:This role offers an excellent long-term career proposition with clear progression into a DevOps position, with hands-on experience in CI/CD, automation and cloud engineering. You will join a supportive environment and a role offering strong benefits, flexible working and genuine development opportunities.

What you need to do now
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