Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice UK — Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer (Contract)

Ministry of Justice UK — Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer (Contract)

About the company

Ministry of JusticeThe UK Ministry of Justice is responsible for courts, prisons, probation, and legal services in England and Wales. The Office of the Public Guardian supports people who lack capacity to make decisions, and uses web applications and cloud services to manage lasting powers of attorney and deputyship.

As a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer on contract at the Ministry of Justice UK, I helped develop and support cloud services for a web application used by the Office of the Public Guardian. The project used Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, Git for configuration management, and Jenkins for deployment, with extensive use of public and private Docker registries and bash, Salt, and Python scripting.

Role Location Period
Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer United Kingdom Jul 2015 – Dec 2015

Key responsibilities and achievements

  • AWS automation — Automated AWS infrastructure with CloudFormation and Terraform for consistent provisioning and management.
  • Configuration & deployment — Git, GitLab, and GitHub for version control and collaboration; streamlined deployment workflows.
  • Containers — ECS, docker-compose, docker-machine, Docker Hub, and private registries for containerised deployment.
  • Configuration management — Salt Stack and Python for configuration and automation.
  • Systems — Bash scripting and system administration on Amazon Linux, Enterprise Linux, Debian, and Ubuntu.
  • Testing — Integration testing of cloud deployments using GitLab.
  • Additional — Elasticsearch, PHP, Jenkins, Sensu for search, application support, and monitoring.

Delivering and supporting cloud services for the Office of the Public Guardian with automated AWS infrastructure, containers, and strong configuration management.

Technologies

Category Technologies
AWS & IaC CloudFormation, Terraform
Version control Git, GitLab, GitHub
Containers Docker, ECS, docker-compose, docker-machine
Config & scripting Salt Stack, Python, Bash
Platforms Amazon Linux, Enterprise Linux, Debian, Ubuntu
Other Jenkins, Elasticsearch, PHP, Sensu

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