Infrastructure Specialist AWS DevOps

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Strong experience with AWS platform engineering, including EC2, IAM, VPC, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, EBS, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, KMS, and Security Groups.
• Strong Linux administration experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Amazon Linux, or Ubuntu.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation using Terraform, Ansible, Git, YAML, and shell scripting.
• Hands-on experience installing, configuring, and administering Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager.
• Experience with repository administration, blob store management, cleanup policies, SSL/TLS configuration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and user and role administration.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integration with platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with security best practices, including least-privilege access, encryption, hardening, and vulnerability remediation.
• Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and operational support skills.
• Desirable experience with Docker, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, Sonatype Lifecycle (IQ Server), Apache or NGINX reverse proxy, and enterprise identity integration such as LDAP, Active Directory, or SAML.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and support a highly available Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager on AWS EC2 infrastructure.
• Provision and manage Linux-based AWS infrastructure, including networking, load balancing, storage, and DNS.
• Install, configure, and maintain Nexus repositories, blob stores, certificates, authentication integration, and retention policies.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, server configuration, Nexus deployment, backup procedures, patching, and disaster recovery processes.
• Implement AWS and Linux security best practices, including IAM, encryption, access controls, hardening, and audit logging.
• Set up and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, capacity planning, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Support CI/CD integration for artefact publishing, dependency proxying, Docker image repositories, build optimisation, and secure software supply chain practices.
• Perform upgrades, patching, maintenance, troubleshooting, and performance optimisation across the platform.

Technologies

• AWS
• Active Directory
• Ansible
• Azure
• CI/CD
• CloudWatch
• DevOps
• Docker
• EC2
• Git
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Grafana
• IAM
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• LDAP
• Linux
• Load Balancing
• Nexus
• Nginx
• Prometheus
• SAML
• Security
• Terraform
• Ubuntu
• Cloud
• Bash
• Maven
• Network
• NPM
• PowerShell
• Web

More

We are a well-known consultancy offering a 1-year remote contract with occasional travel to London. This role is inside IR35 and focused on delivering a secure, scalable, and resilient Nexus platform on AWS. We are looking for an experienced platform engineer to work across AWS infrastructure engineering, Linux systems administration, automation, security, and operational excellence.

last updated 30 week of 2026