Full job description

DevOps Engineer | Defence Systems | Contract

Location: Wiltshire, hybrid (1-2 days a week on site)

Rate: £500 - 550 per day, Inside IR35

Start: ASAP

Duration: 6 months

Clearance: Active SC Clearance or higher

The role

This is a hands-on DevOps role across a mainly on-premises estate, while also standing up new Azure cloud environments. You'll own the pipelines, automation and infrastructure that get software safely into secure, controlled environments.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure, repeatable releases
• Provision and manage infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible
• Run containerised workloads on Docker and Kubernetes
• Help implement and secure new Azure environments alongside on-prem
• Embed DevSecOps practices: secure configuration, scanning, vulnerability, access and secrets management
• Set up monitoring, logging and alerting
• Troubleshoot deployments and support rollback, recovery and disaster recovery
• Produce the documentation and assurance evidence that secure delivery needs

What you'll bring

• A background in DevOps, platform, infrastructure or cloud engineering
• Hands-on Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes and Azure
• CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps or Jenkins, plus Git (JFrog is a plus)
• Scripting in Bash, Python or PowerShell
• Comfort working to governance and change control in regulated environments
• Clear, concise communication