DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared) | Inside IR35

DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared)
Rate: £DOE (Inside IR35)
Contract Length: 6 months
Start: January 2026
Clearance: Active SC required
Location: Remote with travel to London 1 day per month (not expensed)

We are supporting a consultancy delivering a large-scale platform and modernisation programme and are looking for experienced DevOps Engineers to support teams moving microservices onto a new cloud platform.

This is a hands-on role for engineers who are comfortable working end-to-end, from code through to production, and who enjoy supporting delivery teams through build, deployment and ongoing operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for production services
• Write and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Deploy and operate microservices in AWS environments
• Support delivery teams with deployments, releases and environment issues
• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, runtime issues and infrastructure problems
• Contribute to shared tooling, patterns and reusable templates

Essential Experience

• Strong hands-on DevOps engineering experience
• Proven experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred)
• Solid Terraform experience, including modules and multi-environment setups
• Good AWS experience, including IAM, networking and container services
• Experience supporting services in production environments
• Familiarity with observability tooling (eg CloudWatch, Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus)
• Active SC clearance