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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Frontier Resourcing
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Cloud Engineering, Information Technology Consulting, Data Infrastructure, DevOps, Network Segmentation, Scrum Methodology, Ansible, Cloudformation, SC Clearance, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Docker
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815089082-devops-engineer

## About the Role

* Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation)
 * Amazon ECS
 * Docker
 * Ansible
 * Strong understanding of security best practice, including:
 * Network segmentation / security groups
 * HTTP security headers & platform hardening, * Experience working in restricted or air-gapped environments
 * Agile / Scrum delivery experience
 * Comfortable working across cross-functional teams
 * Confident in customer-facing situations
 * High levels of integrity and discretion
 * Clear, professional communication

## Description

Catalysing Delivery | Enabling Advantage | Defence, Government and Industry?

We're supporting a National Security-focused technology consultancy in the search for a SC-cleared Cloud Engineer with strong experience automating secure, scalable cloud platforms in highly regulated environments.

Responsibilities

 * Automate application and infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployment within highly secure AWS environments
 * Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines operating under strict security constraints
 * Deploy and manage containerised workloads at scale
 * Embed security best practice by design across infrastructure, pipelines and runtime environments
 * Work as part of a multi-disciplined Agile/Scrum delivery team
 * Contribute to continuous improvement of tooling, automation and delivery processes
 * Engage professionally with customers and stakeholders in sensitive environments

Required Experience

 * Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation)
 * Amazon ECS
 * Docker
 * Ansible
 * Strong understanding of security best practice, including:
 * Network segmentation / security groups
 * HTTP security headers & platform hardening

Nice to have

 * Experience working in restricted or air-gapped environments
 * Agile / Scrum delivery experience
 * Comfortable working across cross-functional teams
 * Confident in customer-facing situations
 * High levels of integrity and discretion
 * Clear, professional communication

Security Clearance

 * SC Clearance required (Active and transferable - mandatory)

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

 * Engineering and Information Technology
 * IT Services and IT Consulting, Defense and Space Manufacturing, and Data Infrastructure and Analytics

Location: Greater London, England, United Kingdom


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