Senior DevOps Engineer – SC Cleared or Clearable

• Location(s): London or Cheltenham
• Hybrid: 2/3day split
• Salary: £60,000 – £75,000
• Clearance: SC Active or Clearable

Company:

A specialist Data Consultancy, working with government clients across Cyber Security, National Security, Law Enforcement and Telecommunications.

They’re looking to bring in a talented and motivated DevOps Engineer to join their team and contribute to their mission of protecting the UK through data-driven insights and solutions. As a DevOps Engineer, you will work closely with public sector clients and project teams to design, develop, and implement DevOps solutions that meet clients’ requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with clients to understand their DevOps engineering needs and objectives
• Design, develop, and implement high-quality solutions for cloud and on premise environments
• Utilise your expertise to architect robust and scalable systems with network and cyber security best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients to gather project requirements, analyse feasibility, and provide technical recommendations
• Stay up to date with the latest trends, tools, and technologies in DevOps engineering and share your knowledge with the team
• Collaborate with project managers to ensure successful project delivery within the defined timelines and budget
• Accurately delivering high quality work to agreed timelines, including taking the initiative and knowing how to jump straight in
• Supporting client engagements, including pitches and presentations

Skills/Knowledge (Non Exhaustive List):

• Experience with working with working with one or more Cloud service providers – AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience developing cloud solutions that can be ported to on premise
• Good understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles, and experience in practical application (e.g. provisioning/deployment via Ansible, Terraform, Helm)
• Network Security
• Good understanding of networking concepts such as Private VPCs, Security Groups, NAT Gateways
• Unix/Linux
• Agile or Scrum. In particular iterative approaches to software development in conjunction with the client
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills or Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with clients and team members
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly in fast-paced environments
• CI/CD pipelines for verifying, building, testing and pushing deployment artefacts
• Experience in OCI containerisation (e.g. Docker) and associated orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Experience in setting up centralised logging and monitoring of deployed infrastructure

If interested and keen to learn more, apply or reach out to [email protected]

Site Reliability Engineer (x2)

Permanent / Remote

£50,000 – £85,000

We have an exciting opportunity to join a leading FinTech business as a Site Reliability Engineer. There are currently two available roles. The two Site Reliability Engineers will work closely and collaboratively with a variety of teams to ensure the foundations of the platform, ensuring that it is scalable and robust. The right candidates will have strong experience with AWS and MongoDB, deploying infrastructure as code (ideally Terraform) and proficient with a variety of CI/CD tools.

Experience

Proficient with AWS – Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, and scaling AWS solutions with networking architectures from scratch.

Skilled in managing and optimising databases at scale. (MongoDB)

Build robust observability platforms, mitigates alert fatigue, and understands SLO/SLA concepts.

Proficient with Terraform with ability to Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment processes.

Proven experience responding to and resolving incidents, focusing on prevention.

Experienced with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, and others, for streamlined development and deployment.

Ability to translate technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences, fostering clear communication.

Responsibilities

Utilise your expertise in AWS and MongoDB to design highly scalable and robust architecture

Deploy infrastructure as code

Ensure the availability and recoverability of our platform

Empower squads to own end-to-end with by driving best practice in key areas such as deployment practices, infrastructure, and observability

DevOps Engineers – FinTech

South West

• Mid-level up to £65,000
• Senior level up to £85,000

Are you ready to shape the future of a cutting edge FinTech platform? A South West based awarding winning FinTech business are expanding the DevOps capability and looking for 4 DevOps Engineers (mid & senior) to join the team. As a DevOps/Senior Engineer you’ll collaborate with engineering squads to tackle complex challenges and pragmatically design the platform. If you’re passionate about leveraging modern tools and technologies to drive efficient, secure, and scalable product delivery, this role is for you.

DevOps Engineer key requirements:

• Strong programming skills in JavaScript/ Typescript with testing expertise.
• Proficiency in major CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions
• Building and optimising workflows
• Comprehensive understanding of AWS, including experience with Lambda/API Gateway/SQS and optimising AWS solutions efficiently.
• Well-versed in DevOps principles, focusing on CI/CD pipelines, observability, and infrastructure-as-code – Terraform
• Proficient in deploying front end and back-end applications
• Experience in building internal developer platforms
• Experience working in agile SCRUM

The business prioritise transparency, inclusivity, and experimentation!

These DevOps positions are NOT for you if:

• You need top-down direction.
• You’re uncomfortable in fast-paced environments.
• You struggle to follow through on ideas.
• You resist change.

The business offers hybrid working where you will be required to work onsite once a month team building days.

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#INDTECH

Location: London base but Remote

Rate: £470-£515 INSIDE IR35

Clearance: Must have a current and valid SC clearance ( no lapsed clearances accepted)

Duration: 12 months

You will be contracting to a well established Central Government client on an exciting project.

Skills:

Must be able to build new DevOps pipelines AWS S3, RDS, Route 53, IAM, EKS, Secrets Manager, ECR Kubernetes Helm, Kops, Ingress/Egress, Terraform Deployment of AWS Resources Pipelines OCI Observability ELK, Dynatrace, Prometheus Others Vault, RedHat SSO, Sonarqube, Trivy, Clair, Git, Laravel

Location: London or Cheltenham – 2 days on-site

Rate: £60,000 – £75,000

Security Information

Due to the nature of this position, you must be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance. To qualify, you must be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. For more information about clearance eligibility, please see https://www.gov.uk/government/…

Skills/Knowledge

The role requires the following key skills / knowledge, non-exhaustively:
* Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field
* Professional experience as DevOps engineer, preferably in a consultancy or industry setting
* Experience with working with working with one or more Cloud service providers – AWS, GCP or Azure
* Experience developing cloud solutions that can be ported to on premise
* Good understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles, and experience in practical application (e.g. provisioning/deployment via Ansible, Terraform, Helm)
* Experience building solutions with Network Security considerations
* Good understanding of networking concepts such as Private VPCs, Security Groups, NAT Gateways
* Experience working in Unix/Linux environments
* Familiarity with software development methodologies, such as Agile or Scrum. In particular iterative approaches to software development in conjunction with the client
* Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to find innovative solutions to complex technical challenges
* Excellent communication and presentation skills or Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with clients and team members
* Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly in fast-paced environments
* A passion for delivering high quality solutions that meet client expectations
* Familiarity with Software Engineering practices and principles, such as CI/CD pipelines for verifying, building, testing and pushing deployment artefacts
* Experience in OCI containerisation (e.g. Docker) and associated orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes)
* Experience in setting up centralised logging and monitoring of deployed infrastructure
* Knowledge of infrastructure security principles and best practices

Seeking a highly skilled DV cleared Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with experience in Linux and DevOps technologies, ideally with a strong background in AWS, to join a dynamic team within the defence sector. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to critical projects in a secure and innovative environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable infrastructure and services using Linux-based systems.
• Collaborating with development teams to enhance application performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Monitoring system performance and responding to incidents with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Automating operational processes and workflows to optimise efficiency.
• Ensuring compliance with security and governance standards in a classified environment.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Active DV clearance is essential.
• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or similar role.
• Strong proficiency with Linux operating systems and associated tooling.
• Experience with containerisation (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages like Python, Bash, or similar.
• Familiarity with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, etc.) is highly advantageous.

Beneficial Skills:

• Previous experience within the defence or government sectors.
• Knowledge of security best practices and protocols (e.g., IAM, encryption).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and associated tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).

Why Join Us: This role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact within the defence sector, contributing to critical national security initiatives. You will work alongside talented professionals in a supportive environment that encourages innovation and professional development.

Location: London / ideally 2 days a week but as a minimum 2 day fortnightly

Clearance: Must have SC clearance (active)

Duration: 12 months contract

Rate: £469/day INSIDE IR35

Role description

We’re seeking a strong, experienced DevOps Engineer for a Generative AI MVP project.

Essential skills and experience

The ideal candidate should have experience in Kubernetes, Helm Chart and Azure. Ideally has experience working in public sector. This role is ideal for someone with 3-5 years of experience and knowledge of the government environment.

Location: Salisbury – Hybrid

Duration: 6 months

Clearance: Must have a current and valid DV clearance

Role Overview

To lead the day to day technical operations of the Windows Team. Reporting to the head of Operating Systems. Individuals have a direct influence on profitability either as managers or as experts in a particular field. The field can relate to a variety of areas such as knowledge of a particular industry, technology, product, profession or skills area such as sales, account management or purchasing. Individuals could be contributors with specialist expertise or responsibility for the management of others. Roles at this level will typically be responsible for the provision of advice on policy implementation through such activities as scenario planning or resource modelling to inform strategic choices in decision making. The consequences of decision making would be operationally focused within a strategic framework.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the team including mentoring in order to grow and develop individuals. Creating a structure of SME’s with client centric skills and future proofing our operations by continually enhancing our skills portfolio in line with the unified Digital strategy
• Project tasks under the guidance of the Project Manager, including: assisting with solution design, Estimating, high level and detailed design work where applicable, implementation.
• Aware of the relevant SLA structure and to respond, fix or escalate according to the limits set out within that structure.
• Write and maintain Operational and User procedures to ensure standards are met.
• Engaging in pre-sales activities to scope out potential solutions.
• Engage with Architects and Solutions Designers to validate potential options and make recommendations.
• Accurately assess effort and cost involved with implementation.
• Ensure that all tasks completed by the team are fully documented in accordance with the standards in place.
• Keep Project Management informed of progress in order to accurately assess time to complete tasks.

Must haves:

• VMware Automation using Aria and VMware Orchestrator
• Linux administration / scripting
• Ansible / Javascript / Powershell
• Experience as a developer working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Cloud experience (especially on prem) a plus.

Company:

This opportunity to work for a leading Central Government client on a new developing project. This company values all people regardless of their statues or position in the business.

Pay Rate: £535/day Inside IR35
Clearance required: Active SC + NPPV3
Duration: 6+ months
Location: Remote + South London a few days per month as and when required

Job Description:

* Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Expert essential
* Devops Working knowledge
* Terraform and automation experience
* Team player

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