
VIQU IT Recruitment
SC Cleared DevOps Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £41,000 - 69,500 per year
Requirements:- We require valid and transferrable SC Clearance.
- We require previous experience working in an air-gapped environment.
- We require experience with issue resolution and roadmap-driven enhancements.
- We require experience working in a production environment with strong on-premises Kubernetes and OpenShift deployments.
- We require experience using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins.
- We require experience designing and operating observability tooling end to end, including logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting systems using ELK, Splunk, and Grafana.
- We require experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
- We require experience supporting critical infrastructure environments or blue light sectors such as defence, military, or nuclear.
- We require an understanding of the importance of P1 service availability.
- We work as part of a collaborative engineering team to maintain secure, reliable, and high-performing services that underpin the core system.
- We solve problems and deliver automation in an agile environment using modern tooling.
- We maintain and enhance production services through issue resolution and roadmap-driven improvements.
- We support and operate on-premises Kubernetes and OpenShift deployments.
- We build and maintain Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
- We design and operate observability and alerting capabilities across logging, metrics, tracing, and dashboards.
- We support services in a critical infrastructure environment with a focus on P1 availability.
- AWS
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- ELK
- Grafana
- Support
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- Splunk
- Terraform
More:
We are seeking an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer for a hybrid role in London, working inside IR35. You will join a collaborative engineering team focused on secure, reliable, and high-performing services that support a core system. The role offers the opportunity to work with modern tooling, automation, agile ways of working, and technologies including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, Jenkins, ELK, Splunk, Grafana, and cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS. We also offer a referral reward of up to £1,000 for successful introductions, subject to terms.
last updated 34 week of 2026
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VIQU IT Recruitment
Bishopsgate
IT
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£55,250
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£60,000
UK median
This salary is 8% below the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks