Lead DevOps Engineers- AWS- MongoDB- Kafka- SC Cleared
Posted 3 days ago by InterQuest Group
£650 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior DevOps Engineer role requires candidates with active SC Security Clearance or the ability to obtain it, focusing on supporting critical digital systems for UK citizens. The position emphasizes strong DevOps practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automation, with expertise in AWS and Unix/Linux environments. Candidates will be responsible for designing, implementing, and securing cloud-based platforms while collaborating within a high-impact team. This long-term contract offers hybrid working arrangements with occasional on-site requirements in London or Leeds.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support high-impact systems impacting UK citizens.
- Design, implement, secure, and support Unix/Linux based platforms.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Gitlab CI and Jenkins.
- Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Packer, and CloudFormation.
- Administer MongoDB clusters or RDS.
- Build, deploy, and secure containers across multiple environments.
- Monitor and respond to incidents across infrastructure.
- Collaborate with teams on version control and state backends.
- Implement best practices for cloud-based application platforms in AWS.
- Utilize log management and aggregation tools like Splunk.
Key Skills:
- Active SC Security Clearance or ability to obtain it.
- Strong DevOps experience with CI/CD and automation.
- Expertise in Unix/Linux (RHEL/CentOS) and scripting (Bash, Python, Go).
- Significant experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Deep understanding of IaC tools: Terraform, Packer, CloudFormation.
- Excellent Kafka skills in production settings.
- Experience with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, ECS/Fargate).
- Knowledge of security principles (Hashicorp Vault, PKI, TLS).
- Experience in monitoring/observability with distributed tracing.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
Salary (Rate): £650.00 daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior DevOps Engineer –SC Security Clearance
We're looking for 5 Senior DevOps Engineer’s to join a critical digital team, supporting high-impact systems impacting UK citizens. This is your chance to work at the heart of government digital transformation — shaping and securing platforms that millions rely on daily.
Senior DevOps Engineer –SC Security Clearance- Essential Expereince
- Active SC Security Clearance or the ability to undergo SC Security Clearance.
- Strong DevOps experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automation
- Expertise in Unix/Linux (RHEL/CentOS) and scripting with Bash, Python, or Go
- Significant experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
- Deep understanding of IaC tools: Terraform, Packer, CloudFormation.
- Expereince of administering MongoDB clusters or RDS (not just used as a developer).
- Strong Terraform experience including production managing modules, remote state, multi-env, or Terragrunt.
- Understanding of version control, state backends, and team collaboration (use with AWS resources is a strong plus).
- Excellent Kafka skills including in a production setting, consumer lag, partitioning, troubleshooting, tuning, scaling topics.
- Experience of designing, implementing, securing, and supporting Unix/Linux based platforms (ideally RHEL / CentOS) and developing solutions using scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go)
- Experience of developing and supporting cloud-based application platforms in AWS
- Experience across infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response.
- Knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (ideally Gitlab CI & Jenkins).
- Experience in designing and implementing best practices using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Packer, CloudFormation and Cloud-Init
- Skills in Containerization: Kubernetes, ECS/Fargate, Nomad, Security: Hashicorp Vault, PKI, TLS, NCSC Principles, Networking: VPC Peering, DNS, Service Mesh, Identity & Device Management: Keycloak, Entra ID, JAMF, Okta.
- Extensive and demonstrable experience in designing, building, maintaining Linux workloads running across multiple environments on a cloud platform such as AWS.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing best practices using IaC tools such as Terraform and automating legacy applications with scripting languages such as shell scripts, python.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing best practices using CaC tools (Ansible)
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools (Gitlab, Github, Jenkins.)
- Extensive experience in building, deploying and securing containers using various strategies across multiple environments.
- Experience in using log management and aggregation tools such as Splunk.
Senior DevOps Engineer –SC Security Clearance- Desirable Expereince
- Kafka experience within integrations within microservices or event driven architectures.
- Expereince of monitoring/observability with distributed tracing
- Data Lifecycle management with MongoDB or RDS.
- Expereince of CloudFormation, CDK, or multi-account architecture.
The role is inside IR35 circa £550-£650.00 DOE- Long term contract until March 2026
Hyrid workign with ad hoc days on site in London or Leeds
InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.