Description
Location: Cheltenham (Onsite)
Clearance Requirement: Active DV Clearance
Employment Type: Full-Time / Contract & Permanent available
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced DV-cleared DevOps Engineer to join our team in Cheltenham. This is an on-site role requiring candidates with an active UK-developed Vetting (DV) clearance. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS or Azure, though expertise in both is highly desirable. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating cloud infrastructure, and ensuring system reliability and scalability. You will work closely with development, security, and operations teams to build secure, efficient, and scalable cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support application development and deployment.
- Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management.
- Implement and manage containerization and orchestration solutions (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Ensure high availability, security, and performance of cloud environments.
- Work closely with security teams to ensure compliance with best practices and regulatory requirements.
- Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack including cloud infrastructure, applications, and networking.
- Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation or ARM templates.
- Monitor system performance; implement logging and alerting solutions; optimize cloud resources.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve DevOps culture and best practices.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Active UK DV Clearance (Developed Vetting) is a mandatory requirement.
- Strong experience with AWS or Azure (preferably both).
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins; GitLab CI/CD; Azure DevOps; or AWS CodePipeline.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform; CloudFormation; or ARM templates.
- Strong scripting skills in Python; Bash; or PowerShell.
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker; Kubernetes; EKS; AKS).
- Knowledge of networking; security best practices;and cloud governance.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring logging tools such as Prometheus ; Grafana ; ELK Stack ;or CloudWatch.
- Familiarity Linux Windows system administration.
- Strong problem-solving skills ability to work independently in a high-security environment.
Desirable Skills:
- Multi-cloud expertise in AWS Azure.
- Experience serverless computing (AWS Lambda ;Azure Functions).
- Exposure Zero Trust Security DevSecOps methodologies.
- Experience working within Government Defence sectors.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary rates based on experience.
- Opportunity work cutting-edge cloud technologies highly secure environment.
- Professional development training opportunities
- Supportive collaborative work environment
- Additional security clearance benefits allowances
If you meet the above requirements are looking for an exciting DevOps role high-security environment apply today!