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SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™

DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared) | Inside IR35

On site

London, United kingdom

£ 500 /day

Freelance

22-12-2025

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Skills

GitLab CI/CD DevOps Monitoring Networking AWS CI/CD Pipelines Terraform Prometheus Grafana Infrastructure as Code Microservices

Job Specifications

DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared)
Rate: £DOE (Inside IR35)
Contract Length: 6 months
Start: January 2026
Clearance: Active SC required
Location: Remote with travel to London 1 day per month (not expensed)

We are supporting a consultancy delivering a large-scale platform and modernisation programme and are looking for experienced DevOps Engineers to support teams moving microservices onto a new cloud platform.

This is a hands-on role for engineers who are comfortable working end-to-end, from code through to production, and who enjoy supporting delivery teams through build, deployment and ongoing operations.

Key Responsibilities
Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for production services
Write and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
Deploy and operate microservices in AWS environments
Support delivery teams with deployments, releases and environment issues
Implement monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting
Troubleshoot pipeline failures, runtime issues and infrastructure problems
Contribute to shared tooling, patterns and reusable templatesEssential Experience
Strong hands-on DevOps engineering experience
Proven experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred)
Solid Terraform experience, including modules and multi-environment setups
Good AWS experience, including IAM, networking and container services
Experience supporting services in production environments
Familiarity with observability tooling (eg CloudWatch, Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus)
Active SC clearance

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