About Us:
Solirius Reply, part of the Reply Group, delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients’ needs.
It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 300 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future.
We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants’ expertise in their fields in order to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.
About You:
You are a motivated and adaptable professional with a strong analytical mindset and a passion for using technology to solve real-world problems. You enjoy working in collaborative, agile teams and take pride in delivering high-quality solutions that make a tangible impact. With strong communication skills and a consultative approach, you’re comfortable engaging with clients, understanding their needs, and translating them into effective outcomes. You understand and align with Solirius Reply Values.
The Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Security Cleared DevOps Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure solutions across cloud and on-premises environments. This role requires an active security clearance and experience working within regulated or security-sensitive environments.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in DevOps practices, cloud technologies, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and security-focused engineering.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
- Understanding client requirements, liaising with stakeholders and speaking with managers.
- Implementing solutions to deploy and maintain highly available and scalable citizen-facing and private services and applications
- Implementing and managing continuous delivery systems and methodologies across cloud environments (Azure).
- Providing feedback to project teams on how the platform is working
- Advise developers on how they use specific systems and configure CI/CD pipelines
- Automating and improving the development and release processes.
Key Skills/Experience:
- Active Security Clearance (SC) or equivalent government security clearance, with the ability to maintain clearance throughout employment.
- Proven experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering roles.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, or Bicep.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or Bamboo.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
- Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, or Datadog.
- Strong understanding of Linux administration, networking, cloud security, and DevSecOps principles.
- Experience working in Agile and DevOps delivery environments.
Benefits
Package and Benefits:
- Competitive Salary
- Bonus Scheme
- Private Healthcare Insurance
- 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
- Up to 10 days allocated for development training per year
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Paid Fertility Leave (5 Days)
- Statutory & Contributory Pension
- EAP with Help@Hand
- Gym Membership Benefits
- Flexible Working
- Annual Away Days/Company Socials
Equality & Diversity:
Solirius Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages, and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.
Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.
