SC cleared Devops Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by 1773387707
£400 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London/Leeds , UK
Summary: The role of SC Cleared DevOps Engineer involves providing production support and managing incident responses while working in a hybrid environment. The position requires strong expertise in Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments, DevOps tooling, and automation practices. Candidates must possess active SC clearance and have experience in high availability production environments, as well as familiarity with cloud platforms and observability functions. Leadership qualities and a security-first mindset are essential for this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide production support and manage out-of-hours (OOH) support via an on-call rota.
- Contribute to DevOps tooling upgrades, issue resolution, and roadmap-driven improvements.
- Administer Linux systems in high availability production environments.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform integrated with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
- Maintain an automation-first mindset across build, deployment, CI/CD, and release processes.
- Design and operate observability functions including logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting systems using ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana.
- Lead incident management, including major incident response and stakeholder communication.
- Coordinate Agile and modern DevOps practices with colleagues and other teams.
- Provide mentoring, technical guidance, and training to team members.
- Ensure operational discipline and governance standards are maintained.
- Utilize cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Support financial, accounting, or payments systems in the financial industry.
Key Skills:
- Active SC clearance.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments.
- Hands-on experience with DevOps tooling and automation.
- Linux systems administration in high availability environments.
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
- Familiarity with observability tools (ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Leadership in incident management and stakeholder communication.
- Understanding of Agile and modern DevOps practices.
- Mentoring and technical guidance skills.
- Security-first mindset and experience with secure systems.
- Operational discipline and governance standards.
- Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Experience with financial, accounting, or payments systems.
Salary (Rate): £400 per day
City: London/Leeds
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Rate: £400 per day inside IR35
Duration: 6 months
Location: London/Leeds - Hybrid- Twice a week WFO
Active SC clearance is must.
Experience with production support, providing support OOH via an on call rota, and OOH release support
Strong experience with on prem Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments
Hands on contribution to DevOps tooling upgrades, issue resolution, and roadmap driven improvements
Linux systems administration experience in high availability production environments
Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, integrated with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)
Automation first mindset across build, deployment, CI/CD, and release processes
Familiar with Observability functions, designing and operating end to end logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting systems using ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana.
Incident management leadership - owning major incident response, prioritisation, Real Time coordination, stakeholder communication, and supporting post incident reviews and reliability improvements.
Thorough understanding of Agile and modern DevOps practices, able to coordinate colleagues and organise priorities, to deliver collaboratively alongside other teams
Leadership qualities including experience in mentoring, technical guidance and training, stakeholder collaboration, strategic planning.
Security-first mindset with experience in secure systems and processes.
Operational discipline and governance standards (Maintaining documentation, adhering to and delivering against SLAs, environment management, best practice approach to change delivery).
Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
Broad experience with financial, accounting or payments systems, products and services supporting the payment services in the financial industry.