AWS DevOps Engineer; SC Cleared

Location: UK, Remote (with monthly travel to the client’s London office)

Contract Length: 12 months (with scope to extend)

IR35: Inside

Interview Process: 1 Stage, MS Teams

We are supporting a large, mission-critical public-sector technology programme in hiring a Dev Ops Engineer to support and maintain a secure cloud platform used for national law enforcement applications.

This role sits within a platform engineering environment, supporting cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerised services and operational tooling. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, support and delivery teams to ensure services are secure, reliable, scalable and production ready.

This role suits a hands‑on Dev Ops Engineer with experience across AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, scripting, containerisation and operational support within secure or regulated environments.

• Build, maintain and support cloud platform services across a secure AWS environment
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Write scripts and automation using tools such as Python, Bash and Ansible
• Build, configure and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using Git Lab CI and related tooling
• Support developers with platform usage, deployment patterns and pipeline configuration
• Work with Docker and Kubernetes to support containerised application deployments
• Provide technical support for platform use, configuration issues and production readiness
• Support routine monitoring, troubleshooting and service quality activities
• Ensure platform services meet security, compliance and operational standards
• Maintain technical documentation and contribute to peer reviews
• Participate in occasional out-of-hours work and future on-call support where required
• 3 to 5 years of experience as a Dev Ops Engineer, Platform Engineer or similar
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS cloud services
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform
• Experience with Git, Git Lab and CI/CD pipeline automation
• Strong understanding of Dev Ops principles, automation and deployment practices
• Scripting experience using tools such as Python, Bash or Ansible
• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Understanding of cloud security, compliance and infrastructure best practices
• Experience troubleshooting platform, deployment and configuration issues
• Strong communication, documentation and problem‑solving skills
• Experience with AWS Control Tower, Landing Zones, Account Factory for Terraform, Account Factory or AWS Landing Zone Accelerator
• Experience with AWS Network Firewall, WAF, Suricata, Fortinet or forward / reverse proxy solutions
• Experience with Ansible, Salt or Puppet
• Git Lab CI and Artifactory administration, ideally self‑hosted
• Exposure to AWS data services such as Glue, Athena, Lake Formation or Quick Sight
• Exposure to Entra  Microsoft Active Directory
• Experience with Git Lab Runners
• Experience with AWS Grafana and Prometheus
• Experience working in secure public‑sector or regulated environments
• Ability to work independently and lead technical discussions where required