Devops Engineer - DV Cleared
Summary
An on-site, 6-month DevOps contractor role in Gloucestershire supporting the full lifecycle of data solutions — from requirements through continuous optimisation. Core tech includes Ansible/Terraform (IaC/CI-CD), Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift, Linux, Prometheus/Grafana/ELK monitoring, and big data tools like Spark and Hadoop; active DV security clearance is essential.
DevOps Engineer
+DV cleared role
+On site work in Gloucestershire
+6 month contract
+Outside IR35
Skills:
- +DevOps Engineer experience
- +Data engineering skills
- +Ansible / Terraform
- +DV clearance
The role:
- Participating in the full lifecycle of data solution development, from requirements engineering through to continuous optimisation engineering and all the typical activities in between
- Providing technical thought-leadership and advisory on technologies and processes at the core of the data domain, as well as data domain adjacent technologies
- Engaging and collaborating with both internal and external teams and be a confident participant as well as a leader
- Assisting with solution improvement activities driven either by the project or service
SKILLS:
- An organised and methodical approach, with excellent time keeping and task prioritisation skills
- An ability to convey technical concepts to all levels of an audience, concisely, and with clarity
- An understanding of data-centric architectures and solutions that is both broad and in some depth.
- Data engineering skills - ETL/ELT
- Technical implementation skills - application of industry best practices & designs patterns
- Technical advisory skills - experience in researching technological products / services with the intent to provide advice on system improvements
- Experience of working in hybrid environments with both classical and DevOps
- Excellent knowledge of Linux operating system administration and implementation
- Broad understanding of the containerisation domain adjacent technologies/services, such as: Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes etc.
- Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD paradigms and systems such as: Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Bamboo, Concourse etc.
- Monitoring utilising products such as: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, filebeat etc.
- Observability - SRE
- Big Data solutions (ecosystems) and technologies such as: Apache Spark and the Hadoop Ecosystem
- Edge technologies e.g. NGINX, HAProxy etc.
- Excellent knowledge of YAML or similar languages
+++ It is essential for this role that you hold DV clearance +++