Cloud Engineer - DV Cleared - Inside IR35

Location: Cheltenham or Milton Keynes (2 days per month on-site, remainder remote)
Contract: 6 months
Day Rate: £550-£600

SR2 are supporting a government programme and seeking an experienced DV-Cleared Cloud Engineer to work within a highly secure environment on complex, large-scale cloud-native systems. This role suits an engineer with strong automation, AWS, and containerisation experience who can operate confidently in multidisciplinary teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Automate application and infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment within a secure environment.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline optimisation and cloud engineering best practice.
• Apply strong security principles across cloud and containerised workloads.
• Work collaboratively as part of an Agile/Scrum, cross-functional engineering team.
• Support continuous improvement across tooling, processes, and delivery approaches.

Essential Experience

• Proven Cloud/DevOps engineering experience in secure or complex environments.
• AWS (CloudFormation, ECS; AWS Developer Tools an advantage).
• Docker and Kubernetes.
• CI/CD automation (ideally DroneCI).
• Git (GitHub or GitLab).
• Advanced Linux administration and Bash Scripting.
• Ansible.
• Strong understanding of security best practice (eg, mTLS, security groups, HTTP security headers).
• Confident working within Agile, multidisciplinary teams with strong communication skills.

Security Clearance
Active DV clearance is essential for this position.

If you are available for a January start and feel your experience aligns, please don't hesitate to apply.