DevOps Engineer - DV Cleared

JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer - DV Cleared

Rate: £550-£600/day (Outside IR35)

Location: Onsite

Clearance: DV Cleared (Mandatory)

Flexible Work Option: Condensed working week (e.g., 3 long days, paid for 5)

Job Summary

We are seeking a technically skilled DevOps & Software Engineer with DV clearance to contribute across the full software development lifecycle and DevOps toolchain. You will design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and automated CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and system monitoring frameworks to support the continuous delivery of secure and reliable software.

This role demands a strong grasp of modern DevOps practices, cloud and container technologies, automation tooling, and software engineering principles. You will work closely with development, security, and operations teams to drive a culture of DevSecOps and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps tooling.

Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to provision and manage cloud/on-prem infrastructure.

Manage container orchestration platforms and develop containerized solutions.

Monitor systems and applications for availability, performance, and security compliance.

Automate operational tasks including testing, deployment, patching, and scaling.

Apply DevSecOps principles to secure applications and infrastructure across SDLC.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, testers, security analysts) to streamline software delivery.

Participate in code reviews, architecture design, and incident resolution.

Contribute to the development and documentation of internal DevOps standards and best practices.

Mentor junior engineers and foster a DevOps-first mindset within delivery teams.DevOps & Tooling Proficiency (Preferred)

CategoryTools & Technologies

CI/CDGitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Azure DevOps Pipelines

Infrastructure-as-CodeTerraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi

Cloud PlatformsAWS, Azure, GCP, or private cloud (OpenStack)

ContainerizationDocker, Podman

OrchestrationKubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), Helm, OpenShift

Version ControlGit, GitLab, Bitbucket

Monitoring & LoggingPrometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, Datadog

Security & ComplianceHashiCorp Vault, Snyk, SonarQube, Trivy, AWS IAM, CIS Benchmarks

Configuration Mgmt.Ansible, Puppet, Chef

Build ToolsMaven, Gradle, NPM, Webpack

Testing ToolsSelenium, JUnit, Postman, Cypress

OtherNexus/Artifactory (artifact repositories), REST APIs, JSON/YAML, Linux system admin