Senior DevOps Engineers

InterQuest Group

  • England
  • £650 per day
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 12 days ago
  • Apply easily
Senior DevOps Engineer –SC Security ClearanceWe're looking for 5 Senior DevOps Engineer’s to join a critical digital team, supporting high-impact systems impacting UK citizens. This is your chance to work at the heart of government digital transformation — shaping and securing platforms that millions rely on daily.Senior DevOps Engineer –SC Security Clearance- Essential Expereince
  • Active SC Security Clearance or the ability to undergo SC Security Clearance.
  • Strong DevOps experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automation
  • Expertise in Unix/Linux (RHEL/CentOS) and scripting with Bash, Python, or Go
  • Significant experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
  • Deep understanding of IaC tools: Terraform, Packer, CloudFormation.
  • Expereince of administering MongoDB clusters or RDS (not just used as a developer).
  • Strong Terraform experience including production managing modules, remote state, multi-env, or Terragrunt.
  • Understanding of version control, state backends, and team collaboration (use with AWS resources is a strong plus).
  • Excellent Kafka skills including in a production setting, consumer lag, partitioning, troubleshooting, tuning, scaling topics.
  • Experience of designing, implementing, securing, and supporting Unix/Linux based platforms (ideally RHEL / CentOS) and developing solutions using scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go)
  • Experience of developing and supporting cloud-based application platforms in AWS
  • Experience across infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (ideally Gitlab CI & Jenkins).
  • Experience in designing and implementing best practices using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Packer, CloudFormation and Cloud-Init
  • Skills in Containerization: Kubernetes, ECS/Fargate, Nomad, Security: Hashicorp Vault, PKI, TLS, NCSC Principles, Networking: VPC Peering, DNS, Service Mesh, Identity & Device Management: Keycloak, Entra ID, JAMF, Okta.
  • Extensive and demonstrable experience in designing, building, maintaining Linux workloads running across multiple environments on a cloud platform such as AWS.
  • Extensive experience in designing and implementing best practices using IaC tools such as Terraform and automating legacy applications with scripting languages such as shell scripts, python.
  • Extensive experience in designing and implementing best practices using CaC tools (Ansible)
  • Extensive experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools (Gitlab, Github, Jenkins.)
  • Extensive experience in building, deploying and securing containers using various strategies across multiple environments.
  • Experience in using log management and aggregation tools such as Splunk.
Senior DevOps Engineer –SC Security Clearance- Desirable Expereince
  • Kafka experience within integrations within microservices or event driven architectures.
  • Expereince of monitoring/observability with distributed tracing
  • Data Lifecycle management with MongoDB or RDS.
  • Expereince of CloudFormation, CDK, or multi-account architecture.
The role is inside IR35 circa £550-£650.00 DOE- Long term contract until March 2026Hyrid workign with ad hoc days on site in London or Leeds

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