Senior DevOps Engineer (DV)
Summary
DV-cleared Senior DevOps Engineer in Cheltenham building, automating and supporting secure cloud and on-premise infrastructure for a National Security technology organisation working on UK defence and government programmes — using CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible, Docker/Kubernetes and AWS/Azure/GCP.
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DV Cleared DevOps EngineerCheltenham
Our client is a growing National Security technology organisation delivering critical solutions that support some of the UK's most important defence and government programmes.
They are looking for a DV Cleared DevOps Engineer to join a highly capable engineering team responsible for building, automating and supporting secure cloud and on-premise environments.
This is an opportunity to work on meaningful projects, modern infrastructure and large-scale secure systems while collaborating with highly skilled engineers.
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Developing Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, Ansible and similar technologies
- Managing Linux-based infrastructure
- Supporting AWS, Azure or GCP environments
- Automating deployment and operational processes
- Deploying and supporting containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes
- Implementing monitoring, alerting and observability solutions
- Troubleshooting infrastructure and deployment issues
- Improving reliability, scalability and security across engineering platforms
What We're Looking For
- Active DV Clearance (eDV or UKIC DV)
- Commercial DevOps, Platform Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering experience
- Strong Linux administration skills
- Experience with CI/CD tooling
- Terraform, Ansible or similar IaC tools
- Docker and Kubernetes
- AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
- Understanding of networking and security principles
- Strong Git knowledge
- Excellent troubleshooting abilities