Lead DevOps Engineers- AWS- MongoDB- Kafka- SC Cleared

InterQuest Solutions • TRAFFIC • England, Not Specified, United Kingdom • 16h ago

Overview

InterQuest

Posted 2 days ago

Senior DevOps Engineer -SC Security Clearance

We're looking for 5 Senior DevOps Engineer's to join a critical digital team, supporting high-impact systems impacting UK citizens. This is your chance to work at the heart of government digital transformation - shaping and securing platforms that millions rely on daily.

Responsibilities

Active SC Security Clearance or the ability to undergo SC Security Clearance.
Strong DevOps experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automation
Expertise in Unix/Linux (RHEL/CentOS) and scripting with Bash, Python, or Go
Significant experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
Deep understanding of IaC tools: Terraform, Packer, CloudFormation.
Expereince of administering MongoDB clusters or RDS (not just used as a developer).
Strong Terraform experience including production managing modules, remote state, multi-env, or Terragrunt.
Understanding of version control, state backends, and team collaboration (use with AWS resources is a strong plus).
Excellent Kafka skills including in a production setting, consumer lag, partitioning, troubleshooting, tuning, scaling topics.
Experience of designing, implementing, securing, and supporting Unix/Linux based platforms (ideally RHEL / CentOS) and developing solutions using scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go)
Experience of developing and supporting cloud-based application platforms in AWS
Experience across infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response.
Knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (ideally Gitlab CI & Jenkins).
Experience in designing and implementing best practices using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Packer, CloudFormation and Cloud-Init
Skills in Containerization: Kubernetes, ECS/Fargate, Nomad, Security: Hashicorp Vault, PKI, TLS, NCSC Principles, Networking: VPC Peering, DNS, Service Mesh, Identity & Device Management: Keycloak, Entra ID, JAMF, Okta.
Extensive and demonstrable experience in designing, building, maintaining Linux workloads running across multiple environments on a cloud platform such as AWS.
Extensive experience in designing and implementing best practices using IaC tools such as Terraform and automating legacy applications with scripting languages such as shell scripts, python.
Extensive experience in designing and implementing best practices using CaC tools (Ansible)
Extensive experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools (Gitlab, Github, Jenkins.)
Extensive experience in building, deploying and securing containers using various strategies across multiple environments.
Experience in using log management and aggregation tools such as Splunk.

Desirable Experience

Kafka experience within integrations within microservices or event driven architectures.
Expereince of monitoring/observability with distributed tracing
Data Lifecycle management with MongoDB or RDS.
Expereince of CloudFormation, CDK, or multi-account architecture.

Conditions

The role is inside IR35 circa £550-£650.00 DOE- Long term contract until March 2026

Hyrid workign with ad hoc days on site in London or Leeds

About InterQuest

InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

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