SC Cleared DevOps Engineer

We are supporting a major UK Public Sector programme and are looking for an experienced SC Cleared DevOps Engineer to join an established platform team supporting a nationally critical 24/7 service.

This role requires a strong all-round DevOps engineer who is comfortable working across platform support, automation, cloud infrastructure and operational service delivery within a secure environment.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Active SC Clearance (must have been used within the last 6 months)
• Strong DevOps/Platform Engineering background
• Experience supporting production services in a 24/7 environment
• AWS and/or Azure
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation or similar)
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps etc.)
• Linux administration and troubleshooting
• Containerisation technologies (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Monitoring, alerting and operational support
• Incident management and root cause analysis
• Agile delivery experience

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain critical production platforms
• Participate in an out-of-hours support rota
• Drive automation and platform improvements
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application issues
• Support cloud and platform transformation initiatives
• Work closely with development and engineering teams
• Contribute to service reliability, resilience and operational excellence

• Public Sector, Government or Defence experience
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience
• Experience within highly secure environments