Role: Senior test engineer
Rate: inside IR35
Location: Remote with occasional travel to Croydon
Duration: Till end of March initially with extensions
SC clearance required

Essential Testing Skills

Basics of AWS (Core AWS Services, Compute and Networking, Storage and Databases, Security and Monitoring, Deployment and Management etc.)
Terraform Basics
Run Infra as Code tests against Terraform
Expertise in Linux User (Intermediate)
Proficient in Gitlab version control
Basic Programming Skills Python, Bash, PowerShell
Familiarity in containerisation tools like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
Expertise in API Testing and automation as some of the security products have very limited or no UI functionality
Understanding of Agile and DevOps practices for continuous testing and delivery
Knowledge of integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab CI
Standard Test Reporting (eg using Junit reports) Ability to understand requirements and analyse code repositories and design effective test cases




Team Specific Technical Skills



Account Management

Familiarity with AWS Control Tower & Account Factory for Terraform
Familiarity with AWS Organizations & Organizational Unit (OU) Management
Understanding of Service Control Policies (SCP) & Resource Control Policies (RCP)
Basics of VPC Endpoints, Networking Basics & Proxy Management (Squid)

FinOps

Basics of FinOps Fundamentals & Best Practices
Understanding of AWS CUR, Tagging and Cost Optimisation
Understanding of Amazon Quick Suite (formerly Quicksight)


Observability

Basics of Operational Monitoring using Grafana and Prometheus
Basics of Alerting
Basics of SIEM


Identity and Trust

Understanding of active directory concepts such as domains, forests, OUs, GPOs (Group Policy Objects)
Understanding of least privilege principles and RBAC
Familiarity with identity federation and SSO
Knowledge of OAuth2, OpenID Connect and SAML protocols


Ingress

Basics of Core Networking concepts
Basics of Cloud Networking Concepts


Account Workload

Understanding of Amazon Workspaces
Basics of AMIs


CI/CD

Knowledge of Collaboration tools (Jira/Confluence)
Basic knowledge of artifact management
Basic understanding of code analysis and quality gates


EKS
Basics of GitOps


SecPro

Knowledge of common vulnerabilities OWASP Top 10, CVE databases etc
Understanding of network protocols, ports, and services
Understanding of encryption algorithms AES, RSA etc
Knowledge of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), SSL/ TLS certificates
Basics of SIEM
Basics of OS Patching



Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

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