DevOps Engineer - SC Clear

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• AWS
• Terraform
• Docker
• NGINX
• PostgreSQL (EC2 and RDS environments)
• Linux administration
• Windows administration
• AWS Transit Gateway
• AWS API Gateway
• AWS Virtual Desktop
• VPN and OpenVPN technologies
• Jenkins
• Groovy
• GitLab
• CI/CD pipeline implementation and support
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Automated deployment processes
• Configuration management
• Elastic
• Kibana
• Infrastructure monitoring and alerting
• Performance monitoring
• Log analysis and troubleshooting
• Service availability monitoring
• Root cause analysis
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement
• Experience within highly regulated environments
• AWS SageMaker
• Python scripting and automation
• Container orchestration platforms
• Infrastructure security and hardening
• Cloud networking and connectivity
• C#
• .NET
• JavaScript
• React
• REST APIs
• Microservices architecture
• Supporting Commercial Off-The-Shelf products within secure environments
• Troubleshooting intelligence, analytical or partner-provided systems
• Exposure to SOLAR, MAT or equivalent operational platforms
• Integration of internally developed applications with third-party products
• Experience supporting AI-enabled services
• Exposure to Large Language Model (LLM) solutions
• Data analytics and monitoring platforms

Responsibilities:

• Support AWS-hosted infrastructure and platform services.
• Maintain and develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Support Docker-based applications across development, test and production environments.
• Assist with CI/CD pipeline development and support using Jenkins, Groovy and GitLab.
• Monitor platform health, performance and availability using Elastic, Kibana and related tools.
• Investigate and resolve infrastructure, deployment and service-related incidents.
• Support networking technologies including VPNs, OpenVPN, Transit Gateway and API Gateway.
• Maintain NGINX, PostgreSQL and associated platform services.
• Contribute to operational resilience, disaster recovery and service continuity activities.
• Perform platform maintenance, patching and security updates.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment processes and automation.
• Participate in incident response and on-call support activities.
• Work within established engineering standards, security controls and operational processes.
• Support a 24/7 operational environment and participate in on-call rotas as required.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• AWS
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Docker
• EC2
• GitLab
• Groovy
• Support
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Kibana
• LLM
• Linux
• Nginx
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• REST
• React
• Security
• Terraform
• VPN
• Windows
• microservices
• ASP.NET
• DevOps

More:

We are joining a secure engineering environment supporting the operation, maintenance and continuous improvement of a business-critical platform and its associated services. Our established engineering team is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, security and performance of systems operating within a secure operational environment. This is a 12-month contract opportunity offering fully remote working, the chance to support critical secure platform services and cloud infrastructure, and work in an SC-cleared environment. The rate is £550 per day via Umbrella.

last updated 35 week of 2026