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 37 week of 2026