DevOps Engineer - SC Cleared

Contract: 6 Months
Rate: £350 - 500 per day
Location: Remote
Clearance: Active SC Clearance required (or eligible to hold SC with current clearance process already completed)
We are supporting a major public sector digital transformation programme and are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team delivering secure, scalable and cloud-native solutions.

This role will focus on the design, automation and optimisation of AWS-based infrastructure and delivery platforms, working closely with software engineers, architects, testers and delivery teams to enable reliable, secure and efficient software release processes.
Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines, with a strong focus on GitLab CI.
• Automate deployment, configuration and operational processes to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Support containerised workloads and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Implement monitoring, logging and observability solutions to improve platform visibility and operational performance.
• Drive infrastructure resilience, scalability, security and cost optimisation initiatives.
• Support incident response, troubleshooting and root cause analysis activities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure successful delivery of platform and application services.
• Promote DevOps best practices and continuous improvement across engineering teams.

Required Experience

• Strong hands-on AWS experience, including services such as ECS, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS and related platform components.
• Proven Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitLab CI.
• Strong Docker and containerisation experience.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and CloudWatch.
• Knowledge of AWS security best practices, IAM and Well-Architected principles.
• Experience implementing automation and reducing manual operational overhead.
• Good understanding of networking concepts including VPCs, DNS, load balancing and cloud connectivity.
• Knowledge of Git workflows, branching strategies and release management.
• Experience working with serverless services and event-driven architectures.
• Exposure to database technologies, including MongoDB and other modern data platforms.

Desirable Experience

• Public sector or government project experience.
• Cloud cost optimisation and FinOps awareness.
• DevSecOps and security automation experience.
• Knowledge of AI-enabled AWS services such as Bedrock and document-processing services such as Textract.
• Experience supporting highly regulated or security-sensitive environments.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a long-term digital transformation programme where you'll play a key role in shaping cloud platforms, automation practices and modern engineering delivery!

Interested?
If you're an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong AWS, Terraform and CI/CD experience and are looking for your next contract opportunity, we'd love to hear from you! You can reach out via email at or give me a call on .

Alternatively, apply directly and I'll be in touch to discuss the position in more detail.