DevOps Consultant

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Active DV Clearance
• Proven experience as a DevOps Architect or Senior DevOps Engineer within secure or regulated environments
• Strong expertise with GitLab (CI/CD, repositories, runners and security)
• Strong expertise with Jira
• Strong expertise with Confluence
• Strong expertise with Ansible
• Strong expertise with VMware technologies
• Experience designing and supporting DevOps platforms in offline or air-gapped environments
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and automation
• Experience producing HLDs, LLDs, SOPs, runbooks and security documentation
• Scripting experience with Bash, Python and Ansible YAML
• Knowledge of secure build and release management, access control and audit requirements
• Experience supporting security accreditation and assurance activities

Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement secure DevOps platforms using GitLab, Jira, Confluence and Ansible
• Design integrated CI/CD solutions for air-gapped environments
• Develop secure software promotion, patching and update processes
• Define toolchain integration and automation strategies
• Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation and DevOps best practices
• Produce High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLDs/LLDs), operational documentation and security artefacts
• Conduct technical design reviews, security assurance and compliance activities
• Support platform optimisation, troubleshooting and stakeholder engagement across secure customer sites

Technologies:

• Ansible
• Architect
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Confluence
• DevOps
• GitLab
• Support
• JIRA
• Python
• Security
• VMware
• Terraform

More:

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Consultant to join a high-profile UK Government programme, designing and delivering secure DevOps platforms within highly secure, air-gapped environments. This is a 9-month contract with hybrid working in Corsham, requiring two days per week on site, and it is inside IR35 with a day rate of £650 to £700. You will play a key role in shaping the DevOps capability that underpins critical national infrastructure, working with modern tooling and providing technical leadership across architecture, automation and platform assurance.

last updated 34 week of 2026