DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared)
Syntax Consultancy Limited
Reading, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
£ 85KJob location
Remote
Reading, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Agile Methodologies
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Static Program Analysis
Continuous Integration
Linux
DevOps
Perl
Groovy
Python
Scrum
Ansible
Shell Script
SonarQube
Web Applications
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Autoscaling
React
Delivery Pipeline
Gitlab
GIT
SC Clearance
Containerization
Angular
Kubernetes
Deployment Automation
Functional Programming
Api Gateway
Terraform
Domain Driven Design
Appdynamics
Docker
Jenkins
Programming Languages
Microservices
Job description
DevOps Engineer needed with active SC Security Clearance for a permanent position based in Reading (Hybrid). Start ASAP in Spring 2026.
Hybrid Working - primarily working from home (WFH), with travel to the office a few times a month on average.
A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in delivering large-scale Government digital modernisation projects.
Requirements
- DevOps Engineer with strong to diagnose and troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues.
- Tech Environment: Strong with experience with continuous integration, automated deployment, testing and relevant tooling (Git/GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Linux, AWS EC2, S3 and EKS
- Strong experience with AWS Cloud Solutions and services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS, API Gateway, ALB, API Gateway, Autoscaling etc
- Strong knowledge in Infrastructure-as-code tools (such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
- Experience in creating automation framework using Ansible
- Understanding in one or two Scripting and programming languages (such as Python/Perl, Groovy, Shell Scripting, etc.)
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes (Ideally with EKS)
- Experience in defining quality gates (integrating SonarQube Static Code analysis, running Regression suites, etc.) In the delivery pipeline
- Agile development methods including: Scrum, TDD, BDD, Kanban.
- Advantageous: Government/GOV.UK/Public Sector experience, Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), AppDynamics, Angular, React, web apps, domain driven design
- Benefits: Salary to £85k (DOE) + Hybrid Working + 10% Bonus + Pension + 22 days holiday + BHs (rising to 25 days) + Death in Service + Health Care Plan + More.