Devops Engineer AWS (healthcare or pharma sector)

GCS Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

Devops Engineer AWS (healthcare or pharma sector)

Role: DevOps Engineer (AWS)
Location: Hammersmith, London
Nature: 1/2 days onsite

Responsibilities:

1. Defining and maintaining existing policies and procedures to ensure alignment with best practices.
2. Ensuring new processes are implemented correctly through training and education.
3. Maintain and create infrastructure documentation.
4. Ensure system backups are monitored, maintained, and tested regularly.
5. Monitor and maintain threat detection applications.
6. Develop and monitor a hardware security patching process completed on a monthly cycle.
7. Manage the software and operating system life cycle for all products implemented within the business; plan and implement updates as required.
8. Monitor the current hardware and software estate to ensure timely upgrades for products going end of life.
9. Provision infrastructure components within the AWS cloud environment required by the Development team.
10. Maintain the asset register for all implemented hardware.
11. Manage the change control system for applications.
12. Implement system monitoring to ensure healthy environments.
13. Activate early warning notifications to enable proactive resolution of potential incidents.
14. Regular system log monitoring to comply with application requirements.
15. Monitor and act upon Vantage application logs indicating potential system or security issues.
16. Actively manage Vantage users, including activation, creation, and retirement tasks.
17. Maintain application access control for external products (Jira/GitHub).
18. Manage the Research data load process in AWS Redshift.
19. Distribute monthly reports created by the Product Team analysts.
20. Manage the annual Vantage penetration test and remediation tasks.
21. Implement disaster recovery in AWS (multiple zones) and conduct regular testing to comply with business policies.
22. Ensure systems used by the business have two-factor authentication implemented where possible.
23. Implement and monitor a Web Application Firewall to secure systems from intruder/actor penetration.
24. Maintain access control records for all data held within the business unit.
25. Manage and onboard new services.
26. Provide release management support.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Degree level education, ideally in Information Technology (not essential).
2. Relevant experience in a similar role (2-3 years minimum).
3. Experience or interest in the healthcare and/or pharmaceutical sector.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.