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

Application Support Knowledge

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

What you'll get in return

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

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