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About the Role
This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on designing, maintaining, and improving AWS-hosted Identity platforms running on Kubernetes and ECS. You will lead by example, mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and own services throughout their lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Design, maintain, and improve AWS-hosted Identity platforms.
- Lead by example and mentor engineers.
- Influence technical decisions.
- Own services throughout their lifecycle.
- Develop infrastructure using Terraform.
- Maintain reusable Terraform modules.
- Develop and maintain Helm charts.
- Support and evolve reusable Helm chart libraries.
- Deploy services to ECS and EKS.
- Support the ECS platform.
- Write and maintain GitLab CI pipelines and reusable pipeline templates.
- Write and maintain automated tests for infrastructure, platform code, and supporting applications.
- Integrate automated testing into GitLab CI pipelines.
- Investigate and resolve test failures.
- Perform performance, load, and stress testing using JMeter and k6.
- Support production services.
- Investigate incidents and perform root cause analysis.
- Review merge requests.
- Participate in technical design discussions.
- Write and maintain technical documentation.
- Produce Spike investigations and implementation proposals.
- Write Jira stories, technical tasks, and Spike tickets.
- Improve automation and engineering standards.
- Work with application developers to support deployments.
- Maintain AWS platform components.
- Mentor engineers.
- Lead Agile ceremonies when required.
- Drive continuous improvement across the platform and engineering practices.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience across AWS services including ECS, EKS, EC2, IAM, Auto Scaling Groups, KMS, CloudHSM, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager Parameter Store, and CloudWatch.
- Strong Terraform experience, including writing production-quality Terraform, creating and maintaining reusable modules, managing multiple environments using Workspaces, and reviewing/improving existing modules.
- High level of Kubernetes knowledge, including deploying and operating applications on EKS, troubleshooting workloads, working with Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, RBAC, resource requests/limits, Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, and Network Policies.
- Extensive Helm experience, including writing and maintaining charts, building reusable templates, managing values across environments, and debugging deployments.
- Knowledge of ECS, including ECS Services, Task Definitions, Auto Scaling Groups, Capacity Providers, deployment strategies, and operational troubleshooting.
- Experience with Docker, including building images, writing Dockerfiles, multi-stage builds, and image optimization.
- Experience with GitLab and CI/CD, including writing GitLab CI pipelines, maintaining reusable pipeline fragments and templates, building reusable CI/CD components, managing multi-stage deployment pipelines, secure secret handling, and build/deployment automation.
- Experience with testing and quality engineering, including writing and maintaining Terraform Tests, Go-based tests for Helm charts, application tests (Node.js unit/integration), automated tests for Python tooling/applications (pytest), understanding test coverage, integrating automated tests into GitLab CI, troubleshooting failing tests, building reusable testing stages, running tests locally and in CI/CD, performance/load/stress testing (JMeter, k6), and analyzing performance test results.
- Understanding of identity and security concepts, including OAuth 2.0 flows, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWTs, API authentication, IAM, and Kubernetes RBAC.
- Useful experience with Kong API Gateway, including routing, authentication plugins, OIDC integration, rate limiting, upstream configuration, and troubleshooting gateway behavior.
- Expected knowledge of Istio, including Virtual Services, Destination Rules, Gateways, mTLS, traffic routing, and basic troubleshooting.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace, including creating dashboards, alerting, metrics, performance troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and monitoring production services.
- Strong technical documentation skills, including producing Spike documentation, implementation documentation, README files, operational runbooks, support documentation, handover documentation, recording technical decisions, communicating ideas, and writing high-quality Jira stories.
- Ability to take ownership of services throughout their lifecycle, understand the wider platform, drive work with minimal supervision, identify technical debt, challenge designs, consider operational support, design maintainable solutions, work across multiple repositories, be accountable for quality, and support incident investigation.
- Experience working effectively within Agile delivery teams, participating in ceremonies, leading ceremonies when required, breaking down technical work, writing Jira stories, producing acceptance criteria and implementation plans, contributing to backlog refinement, providing estimates, identifying risks, collaborating with stakeholders, managing priorities, and communicating progress.
- Willingness to go through Security Clearance.
Skills
- AWS
- ECS
- EKS
- EC2
- IAM
- Auto Scaling Groups
- KMS
- CloudHSM
- Secrets Manager
- Systems Manager Parameter Store
- CloudWatch
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Docker
- GitLab
- GitLab CI
- Testing
- Quality Engineering
- OAuth 2.0
- OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- JWT
- RBAC
- Kong API Gateway
- Istio
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Dynatrace
- Python
- pytest
- Node.js
- JMeter
- k6
- Technical Documentation
- Agile Delivery
- Leadership
Location
- UK-based
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Lead Engineer
- Technical Leadership
Benefits
- Autonomy to develop and grow skills and experience
- Part of exciting project work making a difference
- Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership
- Supportive and collaborative environment
- Development access to LinkedIn Learning
- Management development programme
- Training
- 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
- Social events (Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays, Pizza)
- Commitment to charitable causes
- 25 days a year time off
- Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution
- Discretionary Company Bonus
- Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
- Private Medical Insurance (non-contributory, spouse and dependants included)
- Worldwide Travel Insurance (non-contributory, spouse and dependants included)
About the Company
- Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy partnered with central government departments and agencies.
- Established over 30 years ago and UK-based.
- Applies skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration to create end-to-end business and technical solutions.
- Focuses on people-centred, safe, and future-designed solutions.
- Believes in creating value and sustainability for clients, staff, communities, and the planet.
- Supports clients in project success through collaboration, skill sharing, and problem-solving.
- Fosters a fun and hard-working environment where mistakes are learned from.
- Acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022.