DevOps Engineer

Location: Hybrid - Croydon, UK (2–3 days on site), with some remote working

Client: Public Sector

Rate: £500-600 per day (Inside IR35 preferred, Outside IR35 considered)

Duration: 6 months (lots of scope, will be extended based on delivery)

Start: ASAP

Security Clearance: Must hold current, active SC clearance

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing delivery team supporting critical public services. You will be responsible for building and maintaining secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using modern DevOps practices across AWS and Kubernetes environments.

This role requires an individual who is comfortable working in secure, high-assurance environments and collaborating with multidisciplinary agile teams.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable and secure AWS infrastructure

Deploy and operate Kubernetes platforms (EKS or equivalent)

Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks

Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)

Support containerised workloads (Docker, Helm)

Monitor, troubleshoot and resolve production incidents

Work closely with development, architecture and security teams

Ensure platforms meet security and compliance standards

Contribute to technical design and continuous improvement

Essential Skills & Experience

Active SC clearance (mandatory)

Strong hands-on experience with AWS

Strong experience with Kubernetes

Proven experience delivering production DevOps platforms

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation / Ansible)

CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)

Container technologies (Docker, Helm)

Experience working in secure or regulated environments

Excellent communication skills and ability to work in agile teams

Desirable Experience

Experience working with UK Government or public sector clients

Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)

SRE or reliability engineering practices

Security-focused DevOps implementations

Why Join?

Work on mission-critical systems within the Home Office

Hybrid working with flexibility

Opportunity to shape DevOps and cloud engineering standards

Competitive day rate with potential extension