DevOps Engineer – Active SC Required

£500 per day (Inside IR35)
12 Month Contract
Remote Working | Occasional Travel to London

We’re looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for the support, maintenance and continuous improvement of a secure, business-critical platform.

You’ll play a key role in ensuring platform reliability, availability, security and performance while working closely with software developers, support teams and platform engineers. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a complex AWS environment, supporting modern DevOps tooling, cloud infrastructure and automation initiatives.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting and maintaining AWS-hosted infrastructure and platform services.
• Managing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Supporting containerised applications using Docker.
• Building, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab and Groovy.
• Monitoring platform performance, availability and health through Elastic and Kibana.
• Troubleshooting infrastructure, deployment and production issues.
• Supporting cloud networking technologies including VPNs, OpenVPN, Transit Gateway and API Gateway.
• Administering Linux and Windows environments.
• Supporting PostgreSQL environments hosted within EC2 and RDS.
• Contributing to disaster recovery, resilience and business continuity activities.
• Managing platform patching, upgrades and security updates.
• Producing and maintaining technical documentation.
• Working closely with development teams to improve automation and deployment processes.
• Participating in incident management and on-call support when required.

Essential Skills

• Strong AWS infrastructure and platform support experience.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Docker.
• Jenkins.
• GitLab.
• CI/CD pipeline implementation and support.
• Groovy scripting.
• Linux administration.
• Windows administration.
• NGINX.
• PostgreSQL (EC2 and RDS environments).
• AWS Transit Gateway.
• AWS API Gateway.
• AWS Virtual Desktop.
• VPN and OpenVPN technologies.
• Elastic and Kibana.
• Infrastructure monitoring, alerting and performance management.
• Troubleshooting, incident management and root cause analysis.
• Experience working within secure or highly regulated environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable Skills

• AWS SageMaker.
• Python scripting and automation.
• Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.
• Infrastructure security and hardening.
• Cloud networking and connectivity.
• C# and .NET.
• JavaScript and React.
• REST APIs.
• Microservices architecture.
• Experience supporting Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products.
• Experience supporting analytical, intelligence or partner-provided platforms.
• Exposure to SOLAR, MAT or similar operational systems.
• Experience supporting AI-enabled platforms and services.
• Exposure to Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Data analytics and monitoring platforms.

Ideal Candidate

You’ll be a hands-on DevOps Engineer who is comfortable supporting live production environments, driving automation, improving operational processes and collaborating across engineering teams. You’ll have a strong AWS background, excellent troubleshooting skills and a proactive approach to platform reliability and continuous improvement.