DevOps Engineer

About the job Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (Remote) - Public Sector | Inside IR35 100% Remote (UK) - occasional expensed travel for workshops/meetings 12-month contract, extensions likely Inside IR35 Active SC Clearance required - NPPV3 sponsored on project Flexible start date One-stage technical interview (MS Teams) About the Role We're urgently hiring Senior DevOps Engineers to join a high-performing infrastructure team delivering enterprise microservice architecture for a major public sector client. You'll build and run AWS cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes container platforms in fast-paced 2–3 week sprints. What You'll Do Design, deploy and maintain AWS infrastructure via Terraform/IaC Build and manage Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and containerised workloads Automate CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) for build, test, deploy and monitoring Migrate and integrate customer workloads into AWS Troubleshoot infrastructure and platform incidents Implement security best practice — IAM, encryption, network security Work in Git/GitLab across sprint-based delivery Essential Active SC Clearance (must-have), willing to undergo NPPV3 vetting 5–10+ years' DevOps experience with strong IaC background Expert AWS: EC2, EKS, RDS, Route 53, VPC, S3 Expert Docker, Kubernetes, Helm Expert Terraform Strong Jenkins CI/CD experience Solid Git version control Desirable AWS/Kubernetes/Terraform certifications Python or similar scripting experience Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch monitoring experience Broader product lifecycle exposure (requirements/service design) Expert-level AWS knowledge, specifically: EC2 EKS (Kubernetes) RDS S3 Expert-level containerisation using Docker and Kubernetes Expert-level Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management Strong experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines, particularly with Jenkins Proficient with Git and version control workflows Hands-on experience with Helm Solid understanding of security policy implementation, including IAM, encryption and network security This is a high-priority, fast-moving requirement. Candidates must hold active SC clearance and have strong AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform expertise. Applications without active SC clearance will not be considered, please apply only if you meet this requirement.