Senior/Principal DevOps Engineer - DV Cleared - contract - Hybrid

We are working with a growing technology consultancy delivering complex digital and cloud transformation programmes across UK Defence and the Public Sector. Due to continued project growth, they are looking to appoint a DV Cleared Senior/Principal DevOps Engineer to join their expanding engineering capability.

This is a key technical role supporting the delivery of secure, automated and scalable cloud platforms across high-profile national security programmes.

The role offers the opportunity to work on mission-critical systems, influence DevOps best practice, and help shape platform engineering capability within a growing consultancy environment.

The Role

You will design, build and support secure DevOps platforms and cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure environments, helping development teams deliver reliable and automated deployments while ensuring strong security and operational practices.

Working closely with engineering teams and stakeholders, you will help drive automation, platform reliability, and DevOps maturity across defence programmes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated build, testing and deployment

• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation

• Deliver and support secure cloud environments across AWS and Azure

• Manage and support Red Hat/Linux based systems

• Implement monitoring, logging and observability using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or similar

• Manage containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes

• Ensure infrastructure meets security, compliance and governance standards

• Support incident response, reliability improvements and operational resilience

• Work closely with development teams to improve deployment processes and automation

• Produce technical documentation including architecture decisions, runbooks and operational handover material

Essential Skills

• Current DV Clearance prior to a start date

• Experience working in DevOps, Platform Engineering or SRE roles

• Strong experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins or Azure DevOps)

• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms

• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM or CloudFormation)

• Strong Linux/Red Hat administration experience

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Scripting or programming experience (Python, Bash or PowerShell)

• Experience supporting production environments and reliability practices

Desirable Experience

• Microservices architectures

• DevSecOps and secure pipeline practices

• Cloud governance and landing zone design

• Configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef

• GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or Flux

• Experience working within Agile delivery environments

Location:

UK Hybrid working model, Wiltshire or London regions (with up to 3-4 days on site)