DevOps / Platform Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Build and support cloud-based digital products and services for citizen- and officer-facing applications.
• Design, develop, and maintain cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines to support reliable application delivery.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Design, implement, and enhance CI/CD pipelines, particularly using GitLab, to enable automated and reliable software delivery.
• Deploy, manage, and support containerised applications using Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, and/or Amazon EKS.
• Implement deployment automation and engineering practices that improve release efficiency, consistency, and reliability.
• Design and manage cloud networking components to support secure and highly available applications and services.
• Establish and maintain observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting practices across cloud and production environments.
• Support production operations, including troubleshooting, incident response, performance optimisation, and service recovery.
• Implement security controls covering authentication, authorisation, encryption, audit logging, and secure system configuration.
• Ensure infrastructure and platform services comply with applicable security, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Support the integration of systems across government agencies and external partners.
• Contribute to the modernisation of existing Java-based and platform applications through cloud-native and DevOps practices.
• Collaborate with development, security, and infrastructure teams to improve automated testing, engineering quality, and operational resilience.
• Build reusable platform and engineering capabilities that can be adopted across multiple teams within the organisation.
• Support the delivery of reliable, scalable, secure, and highly available production systems.

Relevant Technical Experience

• AWS and cloud infrastructure
• Government Commercial Cloud (GCC) exposure
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly Terraform or OpenTofu
• CI/CD and deployment pipelines, particularly GitLab
• Docker and containerisation
• AWS ECS and/or Kubernetes / Amazon EKS
• Deployment automation
• Cloud networking
• Observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Production operations and incident response
• Authentication, authorisation, encryption, and audit logging
• Cloud security controls and compliance requirements
• High availability, scalability, and production reliability