DevOps Engineer; SC Cleared | IR35

Position: DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared) | Inside IR35
Location: Chaucer

Dev Ops Engineer (SC Cleared)

Rate: £DOE (Inside IR35)
Contract Length: 6 months
Start:
January 2026
Clearance:
Active SC required

Location:

Remote with travel to London 1 day per month (not expensed)

We are supporting a consultancy delivering a large-scale platform and modernisation programme and are looking for experienced Dev Ops Engineers to support teams moving microservices onto a new cloud platform.

This is a hands-on role for engineers who are comfortable working end-to-end, from code through to production, and who enjoy supporting delivery teams through build, deployment and ongoing operations.

Key Responsibilities
Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for production services
Write and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
Deploy and operate microservices in AWS environments
Support delivery teams with deployments, releases and environment issues
Implement monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting
Troubleshoot pipeline failures, runtime issues and infrastructure problems
Contribute to shared tooling, patterns and reusable templates

Essential Experience
Strong hands-on Dev Ops engineering experience
Proven experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines (Git Lab preferred)
Solid Terraform experience, including modules and multi-environment setups
Good AWS experience, including IAM, networking and container services
Experience supporting services in production environments
Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Cloud Watch, Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus)
Active SC clearance