DevOps Engineer - £675 per day - 4 Month Contract - SC Cleared

DevOps Engineer - £675 per day - 4 Month Contract - SC Cleared

Rate: £675 per day

IR35: Inside

Location: Hybrid/Remote - London, Manchester or Bristol.

The Role:

A leading Central Government organisation is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing platform team on an initial 4-month contract.

This role will focus on building, maintaining and improving cloud infrastructure supporting complex internal government platforms. The successful candidate will be a hands on engineer with strong experience across AWS, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes and CI/CD, capable of contributing immediately without requiring significant ramp up time.

Experience & Requirements:

• Strong hands on experience building and supporting cloud infrastructure within AWS environments.
• Proven expertise with Kubernetes, containerisation technologies and orchestration platforms, including Docker, ECS and ideally EKS.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform.
• Experience designing, implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions.
• Good understanding of AWS security, IAM, access controls and operational best practices.
• Experience supporting complex production systems and large scale platforms.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills within multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation, tickets and progress updates.
• Experience identifying and escalating risks, issues and dependencies effectively.
• Government or public sector experience is beneficial but not essential.
• Experience working on internal-facing platforms, data platforms or analytical platforms would be advantageous.

Key Skills:

• AWS
• Kubernetes (EKS desirable)
• Docker
• ECS
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• GitHub Actions
• IAM & Security Controls

If you hold active SC Clearance and have strong AWS, Terraform and Kubernetes experience, please apply and we will be in touch to discuss the opportunity further.