DevOps Engineer - £675 per day - 4 Month Contract - SC Cleared
Rate: £675 per day
IR35: Inside
Location: Hybrid/Remote - London, Manchester or Bristol.
The Role:
A leading Central Government organisation is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing platform team on an initial 4-month contract.
This role will focus on building, maintaining and improving cloud infrastructure supporting complex internal government platforms. The successful candidate will be a hands‑on engineer with strong experience across AWS, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes and CI/CD, capable of contributing immediately without requiring significant ramp‑up time.
Experience & Requirements:
- Strong hands‑on experience building and supporting cloud infrastructure within AWS environments.
- Proven expertise with Kubernetes, containerisation technologies and orchestration platforms, including Docker, ECS and ideally EKS.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform.
- Experience designing, implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions.
- Good understanding of AWS security, IAM, access controls and operational best practices.
- Experience supporting complex production systems and large‑scale platforms.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills within multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to write clear technical documentation, tickets and progress updates.
- Experience identifying and escalating risks, issues and dependencies effectively.
- Government or public sector experience is beneficial but not essential.
- Experience working on internal-facing platforms, data platforms or analytical platforms would be advantageous.
Key Skills:
- AWS
- Kubernetes (EKS desirable)
- Docker
- ECS
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- IAM & Security Controls
If you hold active SC Clearance and have strong AWS, Terraform and Kubernetes experience, please apply and we will be in touch to discuss the opportunity further.
