SC Cleared DevOps Engineer (On-prem)

SC Cleared DevOps Engineer (on-prem) - London Hybrid - Inside IR35  My client seeks to recruit an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer, you will join a collaborative multi disciplinary team who are fundamental to the maintaining…

Inside IR35 Hybrid IT
Pay rate £600 – £800/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 10 August 2026

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Inside IR35

SC Cleared DevOps Engineer (on-prem) - London Hybrid - Inside IR35 

My client seeks to recruit an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer, you will join a collaborative multi disciplinary team who are fundamental to the maintaining the security, reliability of the high performing services that underpin core business activity.

Joining as an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer your core tasks will include but not limited to:

* Supporting, maintaining and developing changes

* Collaborating / directing with solution designers with regards to product roadmaps and end to end architecture of the Domain

* Working with the wider team maintaining the tool chain

Core Skills to include: 

* SC Clearance 

* 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

* Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS or GCP)

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