Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared)

Location: Primarily Remote (UK) with occasional onsite attendance

Contract: Initial 6 months

IR35: Inside IR35

Day Rate: Up to £690pd

Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance is essential

Interview Process: Microsoft Teams

Start: ASAP

Overview

• We're supporting a high-profile UK Government digital programme seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join an established engineering team delivering secure, cloud-native services.
• This role is primarily remote, with occasional onsite collaboration. Office attendance will vary depending on your location-those based near London can expect around 1-2 days per week, while candidates based elsewhere in the UK will typically attend less frequently.
• You'll play a key role in improving delivery capability, enhancing platform reliability, and supporting engineering teams through modern DevOps practices and automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Drive best practice across DevOps, release management and software delivery.
• Manage and improve Git-based source control and development workflows.
• Build, operate and support production cloud environments, primarily within AWS.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code solutions.
• Automate operational tasks and developer workflows using Python and other Scripting languages where appropriate.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues using a structured, evidence-based approach.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to improve platform performance, security and reliability.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and promote DevOps best practices across delivery teams.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Active SC Clearance.
• Strong commercial experience designing, building and operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working with Git-based development and source control practices.
• Proven experience operating production workloads within a major public cloud platform, ideally AWS.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation or similar).
• Commercial Python Scripting experience for automation and operational tooling.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a methodical, evidence-led approach.
• Strong communication skills and experience working within Agile delivery teams

Desirable:

• Experience working within Central Government or other highly secure environments.
• Knowledge of cloud security, monitoring and observability tooling.
• Experience improving developer experience through automation and platform engineering practices.

If you are available and interested in this opportunity, please apply for further information. Please note that due to high volumes of applications we are unable to contact every applicant. If you do not hear back from us within 7 days of sending your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.

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