SC Cleared DevOps Engineer (EKS AWS)

Summary

SC Cleared DevOps Engineer managing AWS EKS Kubernetes platforms, building CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, and automating infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible for a UK-based client.

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:
  • Strong AWS experience, including EC2, S3, RDS, IAM and VPC
  • Kubernetes experience, including EKS
  • Experience with Docker and Helm
  • Terraform and Ansible experience
  • GitLab CI/CD and Git experience
  • Experience with Prometheus and Grafana
  • Experience with Kafka and relational/non-relational databases such as MongoDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • Linux administration experience, ideally on RHEL and Ubuntu
  • Experience supporting highly available production platforms and microservices architectures
  • Understanding of PKI, secrets management and IAM security controls
Responsibilities:
  • We manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
  • We operate and improve Kubernetes EKS platforms
  • We build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI
  • We containerise and deploy applications with Docker and Helm
  • We implement monitoring, alerting and logging using Prometheus and Grafana
  • We support microservices-based environments and platform modernisation initiatives
  • We drive automation, infrastructure as code and DevSecOps best practices
  • We provide incident response, RCA and production support for critical services
Technologies:
  • AWS
  • Ansible
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • DevSecOps
  • DevOps
  • Docker
  • EC2
  • Git
  • GitLab
  • Grafana
  • Helm
  • IAM
  • Support
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prometheus
  • RHEL
  • Security
  • Terraform
  • Ubuntu
  • microservices

More:

We are looking for an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer to join one of our local clients in a remote role, working inside IR35 at £420 per day. This is a hands-on AWS DevOps position focused on building, automating and supporting highly available cloud platforms and Kubernetes environments. You will help deliver secure and scalable microservices-based applications across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability and platform modernisation. SC clearance is required.

last updated 35 week of 2026

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