DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared)

Job Title: DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared) Location: Remote - Travel required across during initial knowledge transfer for 1st 3 months (costs covered, depending on distance) Contract Length: 12 Months (with scope to extend) Start Date: ASAP IR35: Inside Interview Process: 1 Stage, MS Teams Clearance: SC We are supporting a public sector client in hiring a DevOps Engineer to join a platform engineering team supporting a key policing system within a secure, regulated environment. This is a hands-on development and support role working across legacy and modern infrastructure, maintaining and improving platform services, CI/CD pipelines and containerised workloads. The successful candidate will take ownership of their domain, contribute to service documentation and peer reviews, and support the application and database teams across a complex, mission-critical environment. This role suits a mid-level DevOps Engineer with at least 3 years of DevOps experience, comfortable working with AWS, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes and ECS, and confident supporting legacy infrastructure alongside modern platform tooling. Key Responsibilities Develop, maintain and support existing platform infrastructure across AWS cloud and Linux environmentsBuild, configure and support CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliable and repeatable deployments across environmentsDeploy and manage containerised workloads using Docker, Kubernetes and AWS ECSWrite and maintain Bash scripts and automation tooling to support platform operations and service managementProvide L3 support for platform issues, including problem resolution, root cause analysis and service restorationTake ownership of legacy infrastructure components, becoming a subject matter expert for assigned servicesMaintain and update service documentation, ensuring accuracy and operational clarity across the teamUndertake peer reviews and adhere to coding standards and best practices throughout development activitySupport integration with auditing and protective monitoring services in line with security and compliance requirements Essential Skills At least 3 years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Developer or similar hands-on engineering roleHands-on experience with AWS cloud services and Linux system administrationExperience with Docker, Kubernetes and AWS ECS for containerised workload deployment and managementCI/CD pipeline development and maintenance experienceBash scripting experience for automation and platform support tasksComfortable working with and supporting legacy infrastructure environmentsStrong problem-solving, documentation and peer review skills Desirable Skills Experience with Nginx or Apache Tomcat and HTTP server configurationOracle experience including Oracle 11, RAC, RMAN, Partitioning or PL/SQLElasticsearch experience including administration and supportRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Oracle Solaris 10 or Windows Server 2008 to 2019 experienceVMware ESX v6 hypervisor experienceETL pipeline experiencePython scripting for legacy system maintenanceJava SE 8 familiarityAnsible or Terraform experienceGit and deployment pipeline governance experienceIBM Initiate Master Data Management exposureGIS technology familiarity including OpenLayers, MapServer or TileCache