Senior DevOps Engineer

RESPONSIBILITY

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, automating, and maintaining secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

The role requires expertise in cloud platforms (GCC 2.0 AWS), automation, security best practices, and modern DevOps methodologies. Engineers must work in an agile, collaborative environment, ensuring seamless integration of security into development workflows and infrastructure operations.

• Develop automation and processes to enable teams to deploy, manage, scale and monitor applications in data centres and cloud environments. Troubleshoot and resolve system and application issues across platforms, participating in on-call escalations for critical incidents.

• Take ownership of end-to-end infrastructure and security solutions across the organization.

• Provision virtual machines, databases, application containers, and licenses for development teams.

• Configure and maintain CI/CD pipelines, incorporating streamlined change management and release processes.

• Develop scripts and automation tools to support software build, integration, and deployment across development and production environments.

• Automate the configuration management of development, quality assurance, and production workloads.

• Design, build, optimize, and monitor automation systems to identify bottlenecks and maximize service availability.

• Implement security practices that comply with industry standards to protect the organization's data and infrastructure.

• Plan, implement, and monitor system security architecture, including threat and risk assessments.

• Perform security checks, such as vulnerability assessments and system hardening, and troubleshoot security incidents.

• Apply secure configurations and best practices when implementing security controls in infrastructure and applications.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS NEEDED

Must Have:

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or related disciplines. Passion for automation, standardization, and best practices in infrastructure and security.

• Experience with AWS Government Commercial Cloud platform.

• Experience with SHIP-HATS platform ().

• Strong understanding of container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), ECS, Fargate AWS services.

• Experience with Git and modern branching workflows.

• Experience with disaster recovery planning, system backup, and restore processes.

• Proficient with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).

• Experience managing AWS cloud native databases.

• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and observability tools.

Good To Have:

• Experience in at least one of the programming/scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell, Python, Go).

• Hands-on experience with virtualization technologies (KVM, VMware, Hyper-V).

• Knowledge of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) tools (Prometheus, Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, Gatekeeper, Crossplane).

• Strong ability to troubleshoot complex issues across system resources and application stacks.

Security & Compliance:

• Experience implementing security controls within CI/CD pipelines and cloud native architectures (SAST/DAST tools).

• Hands-on experience with security assessments, vulnerability scanning, and system hardening.

• Strong understanding of AWS cloud network infrastructure, including firewalls, subnets, routing, and access controls.

• Experience performing security assessments in government or highly regulated environments.

Bonus Experience (Added Advantage):

• AWS DevOps / CKA certifications.

• Hands-on experience with Web Application / API security, secrets management, and zero-trust architectures.