DevOps Engineer

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