DevOps Engineer - SC Clear

Your new companyYou will be joining a secure engineering environment supporting the operation, maintenance and continuous improvement of a business-critical platform and its associated services. The role sits within an established engineering team responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, security and performance of systems operating within a secure operational environment.

Your new roleAs a DevOps Engineer, you will support platform infrastructure, deployment pipelines and live services across AWS-hosted environments. Working closely with development, support and platform teams, you will help maintain operational stability while contributing to automation, infrastructure improvements and service resilience. Key responsibilities

• Support AWS-hosted infrastructure and platform services.
• Maintain and develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Support Docker-based applications across development, test and production environments.
• Assist with CI/CD pipeline development and support using Jenkins, Groovy and GitLab.
• Monitor platform health, performance and availability using Elastic, Kibana and related tools.
• Investigate and resolve infrastructure, deployment and service-related incidents.
• Support networking technologies including VPNs, OpenVPN, Transit Gateway and API Gateway.
• Maintain NGINX, PostgreSQL and associated platform services.
• Contribute to operational resilience, disaster recovery and service continuity activities.
• Perform platform maintenance, patching and security updates.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment processes and automation.
• Participate in incident response and on-call support activities.
• Work within established engineering standards, security controls and operational processes.
• Support a 24/7 operational environment and participate in on-call rotas as required.

What you’ll need to succeedEssential skills and experiencePlatform Engineering & Infrastructure

• AWS
• Terraform
• Docker
• NGINX
• PostgreSQL (EC2 and RDS environments)
• Linux administration
• Windows administration
• AWS Transit Gateway
• AWS API Gateway
• AWS Virtual Desktop
• VPN and OpenVPN technologies

DevOps & Automation

• Jenkins
• Groovy
• GitLab
• CI/CD pipeline implementation and support
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Automated deployment processes
• Configuration management

Monitoring & Observability

• Elastic
• Kibana
• Infrastructure monitoring and alerting
• Performance monitoring
• Log analysis and troubleshooting
• Service availability monitoring
• Root cause analysis

Desirable skills and experienceCloud & Platform Technologies

• AWS SageMaker
• Python scripting and automation
• Container orchestration platforms
• Infrastructure security and hardening
• Cloud networking and connectivity

• C#
• .NET
• JavaScript
• React
• REST APIs
• Microservices architecture

COTS Product Experience

• Supporting Commercial Off-The-Shelf products within secure environments
• Troubleshooting intelligence, analytical or partner-provided systems
• Exposure to SOLAR, MAT or equivalent operational platforms
• Integration of internally developed applications with third-party products

AI & Analytics

• Experience supporting AI-enabled services
• Exposure to Large Language Model (LLM) solutions
• Data analytics and monitoring platforms

Additional Skills

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement
• Experience within highly regulated environments

• 12-month contract opportunity
• Fully remote working
• Opportunity to support critical secure platform services and cloud infrastructure
• SC-cleared environment
• Rate: £550 per day via Umbrella