AMS PSR

On behalf of the Cabinet Office, we are looking for an AWS Site Reliability Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 2 Month contract based REMOTELY with occasional visits to either London, Manchester or Bristol.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role

The role is for an AWS Site Reliability Engineer, (Reliability and Migration), to work on our AWS modernisation and transformation project focusing on the end-to-end migration plan including automated Pipelines and migration scripts,

Role Description

You will be joining a team that develops and manages the cloud hosting infrastructure for the CO. The infrastructure hosts almost 700 Linked AWS accounts. You will be working closely with the AWS modernisation account management engineers to craft a tailored AWS migration plan that aligns with our objectives to migrate 290 AWS Linked accounts comprising dev, test and prod configurations, data and workloads from incumbent AWS organisation to the new AWS Organisation configured with the AWS Control Tower in a phased manner. Leveraging a DevOps-first approach, the crafted plan shall deploy our AWS solution swiftly to maximize efficiency and accelerate our time to value.

The expected outcome is delivery of migration and access plans with automated pipelines and scripts.

You need to address several key challenges:

•Security and Compliance: Ensuring adherence to security and regulatory standards requires careful configuration of AWS security measures.

•Minimizing Downtime: Planning and testing are crucial to reduce downtime and maintain business operations during migration.

•Data Transfer and Low Latency: Moving large datasets can be time-consuming and costly, with potential latency issues during access.

•Change Management: Migration involves significant changes to processes and roles, necessitating a change management plan and action strategy

•Skills Gap: Document thoroughly all the artefacts and steps to reproduce the crafted plan and deliverables including training and sharing capability

Skills Required:

•Proficient in AWS cloud migrations and modernisation

•Experience with AWS cloud platform including AWS services: Glue, S3, Athena, IAM and Apache Iceberg

•Experience with software configuration management (SCM) tools such as Ansible, Terraform, AWS Config, Puppet, or Chef.

•Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, Bash, or Ruby.

•Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.

•Understanding of networking concepts and protocols.

•Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar.

•Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing potential issues.

•Strong SQL skills and experience with Database Technology

•Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, pull requests, automated tests, scripted deployment and infrastructure as code pipelines and related tools like GitHub CI, or AWS CI

•Testing experience: unit testing, integration testing, performance testing, user acceptance testing - automated where time and cost effective

•Code reviews, working in the open, proactively pulling work through

•Give consideration to observability, whole life costs and sustainability

•Able to take security requirements and best practices into the design. Authentication and Authorisation. Field level, row level and data set level access control. Encryption at rest and in flight

•Experience with CI/CD pipelines and related tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Travis CI.

•Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment.

•interest in forming government best practices, standards and policies

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, The Cabinet Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Cabinet Office guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".