DevOps Engineer - Local Authority

Role:
Dev Ops Engineer
Contract Length: 12 Months with possible extension.

Location:

Hybrid/Edinburgh - Onsite collaboration when required depending on project/team requirements
IR35:
Outside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £552.75 per day
Security Clearance: BPSS

A Dev Ops Engineer with solid commercial AWS development experience is required to accelerate the client’s move from legacy on‑prem databases to new cloud‑native solutions. This might be a developer with strong database design and administration skills, or vice‑versa. The focus is developing shared CDK constructs to be consumed by multiple development teams across the organisation for new and migrated databases.

The constructs will embody practical standards for database architecture and quality, allowing centralised assurance.

• AWS IAM, S3, EC2
• Serverless (Lambda)
• Typescript (or modern JavaScript)
• CDK and AWS Development tools including Cloud Formation
• SQL
• RDS and PostgreSQL
• Monitoring solutions (e.g., Cloud Watch, Grafana, Kibana)

• Making excellent quality software with other people.
• Working with business stakeholders, to understand the context and to focus on delivering value.
• Design and implementation of solutions using a service‑based and serverless architecture.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and teamwork skills
• Experience working in the Agile delivery models – such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.
• Cloud database monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes
• Defining infrastructure‑as‑code
• Testing of disaster recovery procedures
• Data replication and high‑availability technology

If you are a Dev Ops Engineer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!

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