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DevOps Engineer (DV-Cleared)
Posted 23 hours 33 minutes ago by Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Lancashire, Manchester, United Kingdom, M21 0
Job Description
DevOps Engineer (DV-Cleared) - National Security Projects
Location: Gloucester or Manchester (Hybrid)
Clearance Required: DV Clearance
Employment Type: Full-time
Are you passionate about working with cutting-edge technology? Do you thrive in high-stakes environments where your skills contribute to national safety and digital resilience? We're partnering with a highly respected organisation operating in the national security sector to hire experienced DevOps Engineers for mission-critical projects.
The Opportunity
You'll be joining a multidisciplinary engineering team that works across secure government and defence programs, helping to build, test, deploy, and maintain high-quality software systems. This role bridges development, infrastructure, security, and operations-giving you exposure to a broad technical environment with purpose-driven impact.
What You'll Be Doing
You will design and implement DevOps pipelines and practices that enable fast, safe, and reliable delivery of software. This includes:
Key Skills & Experience Required
Automation & Tooling
Security & Eligibility Requirements
Due to the sensitive nature of these roles, an active eDV clearance is essential. Candidates must have a minimum of 5-10 years of continuous UK residency to meet vetting requirements.
About the Team
You'll be joining a collaborative, innovation-focused engineering team within a national security environment. The culture combines the scale and resources of a large organisation with the agility of small, close-knit delivery teams. Projects are long-term, meaningful, and offer opportunities to work with some of the brightest minds in secure software delivery.
Note: This position is with a long-standing defence and national security partner. Details about the end client will be disclosed during the screening process under appropriate NDAs and clearance protocols.
Location: Gloucester or Manchester (Hybrid)
Clearance Required: DV Clearance
Employment Type: Full-time
Are you passionate about working with cutting-edge technology? Do you thrive in high-stakes environments where your skills contribute to national safety and digital resilience? We're partnering with a highly respected organisation operating in the national security sector to hire experienced DevOps Engineers for mission-critical projects.
The Opportunity
You'll be joining a multidisciplinary engineering team that works across secure government and defence programs, helping to build, test, deploy, and maintain high-quality software systems. This role bridges development, infrastructure, security, and operations-giving you exposure to a broad technical environment with purpose-driven impact.
What You'll Be Doing
You will design and implement DevOps pipelines and practices that enable fast, safe, and reliable delivery of software. This includes:
- Automating build, integration, deployment, and cloud infrastructure processes
- Supporting and optimising CI/CD pipelines
- Containerising and orchestrating microservices-based environments
- Troubleshooting complex issues across infrastructure, code, and security layers
- Collaborating with engineers, architects, and operational teams
- Maintaining systems in live environments and responding to incidents
- Ensuring security, observability, and scalability are embedded in solutions
Key Skills & Experience Required
Automation & Tooling
- CI/CD tools and pipeline development (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, Bamboo)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
- Orchestration and containerisation (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Scripting in Python, Bash, or similar
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or private cloud)
- Solid understanding of Linux or Windows system administration
- Familiarity with cloud-native application deployment
- Experience managing databases (SQL, NoSQL)
- Exposure to legacy infrastructure and modernisation approaches
- Performance tuning and workload scaling
- Agile and Scrum delivery methodologies
- SRE principles and observability practices
- Experience in mission-critical or highly regulated environments is advantageous
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
- Highly flexible hybrid working model
- 25 days annual leave plus buy/sell options
- Private medical, dental, and a generous pension scheme
- Career development through internal coaching and learning platforms
- Supportive team culture in a stable, high-performing sector
- Bonus scheme and other discretionary benefits
Security & Eligibility Requirements
Due to the sensitive nature of these roles, an active eDV clearance is essential. Candidates must have a minimum of 5-10 years of continuous UK residency to meet vetting requirements.
About the Team
You'll be joining a collaborative, innovation-focused engineering team within a national security environment. The culture combines the scale and resources of a large organisation with the agility of small, close-knit delivery teams. Projects are long-term, meaningful, and offer opportunities to work with some of the brightest minds in secure software delivery.
Note: This position is with a long-standing defence and national security partner. Details about the end client will be disclosed during the screening process under appropriate NDAs and clearance protocols.
