SC Cleared DevOps Consultant - Testing & Assurance

Job Title: AWS DevOps Engineer - Testing & Assurance Lead
Location: Remote
Clearance: SC (no dual nationals)
Duration: 6 months (start: April 2026)
IR35: Inside IR35

We're looking for a proactive AWS DevOps Engineer with strong testing and quality assurance expertise to support a critical national system upgrade. The role demands hands-on technical leadership across automation, performance, and reliability testing within a large multi-account AWS estate.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain automated test frameworks (API, integration, performance, security).
• Implement testing stages in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Concourse, GitLab CI/CD, CodePipeline).
• Drive high-assurance testing using tools such as JMeter, Swagger, JUnit, SonarQube, Postman.
• Develop Python and Shell Scripts for automated validation across AWS environments.
• Manage test data and environments via Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Use Prometheus and Grafana for performance monitoring and quality reporting.
• Collaborate across DevOps, dev, and security teams to prevent defects and optimise reliability.
• Mentor teams and champion shift-left testing principles.

Key Skills

• AWS
• Terraform/CloudFormation
• CI/CD (Jenkins, Concourse)
• JMeter, SonarQube, Postman, Swagger,
• Python, Shell, Prometheus, Grafana, Vault/Consul
• Kubernetes (light touch)
• Ansible (bonus).

This is a high-impact role within a secure environment-ideal for a DevOps engineer ready to lead testing end-to-end and deliver confidence in mission-critical upgrades.

If you are available and interested in this opportunity, please apply for further information. Please note due to high volumes of applications we are unable to contact every application. If you do not hear back from us within 7 days of sending your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.

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