DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared)

DevOps Engineer  (SC Cleared)

Reading (Hybrid)

Permanent

to £85,000 (DOE)

DevOps Engineer needed with active SC Security Clearance for a permanent position based in Reading (Hybrid). Start ASAP in Spring 2026.

Hybrid Working – primarily working from home (WFH), with travel to the office a few times a month on average.

A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in delivering large-scale Government digital modernisation projects.

Key skills, experience + duties to include:

• DevOps Engineer with strong to diagnose and troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues.


• Tech Environment: Strong with experience with continuous integration, automated deployment, testing and relevant tooling (Git/GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Linux, AWS EC2, S3 and EKS


• Strong experience with AWS Cloud Solutions and services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS, API Gateway, ALB, API Gateway, Autoscaling etc


• Strong knowledge in Infrastructure-as-code tools (such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.)


• Experience in creating automation framework using Ansible


• Understanding in one or two Scripting and programming languages (such as Python/Perl, Groovy, Shell Scripting, etc.)


• Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes (Ideally with EKS)


• Experience in defining quality gates (integrating SonarQube Static Code analysis, running Regression suites, etc.) In the delivery pipeline


• Agile development methods including: Scrum, TDD, BDD, Kanban.


• Advantageous: Government / GOV.UK / Public Sector experience, Containerisation (Docker / Kubernetes), AppDynamics, Angular, React, web apps, domain driven design


• Benefits: Salary to £85k (DOE) + Hybrid Working + 10% Bonus + Pension + 22 days holiday + BHs (rising to 25 days) + Death in Service + Health Care Plan + More.