Devops Engineer AWS (healthcare or pharma sector)

Role- DevOps Engineer (AWS)

Location- Hammersmith, London

Nature- 1/2 days onsite

• Defining and maintaining existing policies and procedures to ensure we align with best practices.
  
• Ensuring new processes are implemented correctly through training and education.
  
• Maintain and create infrastructure documentation.
  
• Ensuring system backups are monitored/maintained and tested on a regular basis.
  
• Monitor and maintain threat detection applications
  
• Develop and monitor a hardware security patching process that is completed on a monthly cycle.
  
• Manage the software and operating system life cycle for all products implemented within the business. Plan and implement updates as required.
  
• Monitor the current hardware and software estate to ensure products going end of life are scheduled for upgrading in a timely manner.
  
• Provisioning of infrastructure components within the AWS cloud environment required by the Development team.
  
• Maintain the asset register for all implemented hardware.
  
• Management of the change control system for applications.
  
• Implementation of system monitoring to ensure the environments are healthy.
  
• Early warning notifications should be activated enabling proactive resolution of potential incidents.
  
• Regular system log monitoring to comply with application requirements.
  
• Monitor and act upon Vantage application logs that indicate potential system or security issues.
  
• Actively manage Vantage users, this includes activation, creation and retirement tasks.
  
• Maintain application access control for external products (Jira/GitHub)
  
• Manage the Research data load process in AWS Redshift.
  
• Distribution of the monthly reports created by the Product Team analysts.
  
• Manage the annual Vantage penetration test and remediation tasks.
  
• Disaster recovery implementation in AWS (multiple zones) and regular testing to comply with business policies.
  
• Ensure the systems used by the business have two factor authentication implemented where possible.
  
• Implementation and monitoring of a Web Application Firewall to ensure systems are as secure a possible from intruder/actor penetration.
  
• Maintain access control records for all data held within the business unit.
  
• Management and onboarding of new services.
  
• Release management support.
  
• Degree level education, ideally in Information Technology but not essential.
  
• Relevant experience in a similar role (2-3 years minimum).
  
• Experience or interest in the healthcare and/or pharmaceutical sector.
  
  GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy