Senior DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared)
Senior DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared)
Location: Central Manchester (Hybrid – 1 day per week in office)
Salary: Up to £100,000 + benefits
Clearance: Active SC clearance required
We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with active SC clearance to join a high-impact engineering team working on secure, mission-critical systems.
You’ll be operating in a modern, cloud-native environment with a strong focus on AWS, Kubernetes, automation, and engineering excellence. This is a hands-on role where you’ll shape the platform, not just maintain it.
What you’ll be doing- Designing, building, and operating secure AWS-based platforms
- Building and running Kubernetes clusters and containerised workloads
- Driving an automation-first approach across infrastructure, CI/CD, and operations
- Developing tooling and platform services using Python and/or Java
- Owning and improving CI/CD pipelines and release processes
- Implementing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation or similar)
- Improving reliability, observability, and resilience across critical systems
- Working closely with software engineers, security, and platform teams
- Contributing to architecture decisions and setting engineering best practices
- Mentoring engineers and raising the bar for DevOps and platform engineering
- Active SC clearance (essential)
- Strong experience as a Senior DevOps / Platform / SRE Engineer
- Hands-on AWS experience in production environments
- Strong Kubernetes experience (deploying, operating, scaling clusters)
- Solid programming experience with Python and/or Java
- Strong focus on automation across infrastructure, delivery, and operations
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, etc.)
- CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.)
- Good Linux knowledge and scripting skills
- Experience working in secure, regulated, or high-assurance environments
- A pragmatic, engineering-led mindset with strong ownership
- Experience in defence, government, or highly regulated sectors
- SRE or platform engineering background
- Knowledge of secure networking, zero-trust, or compliance-driven architectures
- Experience operating systems at scale
- Work on high-impact, genuinely meaningful systems
- Hybrid working – only 1 day per week in the Manchester office
- Salary up to £100,000 depending on experience
- Strong engineering culture with real technical ownership
- Long-term, stable programmes with modern cloud and platform tech
Are you an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer looking for something new and exciting? Apply now.
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Senior DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared)