DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer Location: London – Hybrid Employment: Full Time All applicants must hold a DV (Developed Vetting) clearance to apply. The Opportunity: For the UK Government, maintaining National Security is a 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year mission. To support these complex operations, the MoD partners with this Big4 Firm to empower critical thinking and drive value across its strategic initiatives and technology investments. The Role: As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be engaged in complex technology projects within the UK’s Defence, Intelligence, and Military Agencies - supporting the design, build and deployment of CI/CD pipelines, focusing on automation with DevOps while providing hands-on technical leadership in both advisory and delivery capacities. Required Skills/Experience: British Passport Holder with active DV (Developed Vetting) Clearance. Previous Defence, Military, Policing, National Security, Counter Terrorism, or Justice Project involvement - highly desirable Delivering scalable cloud solutions on AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure. Understanding cybersecurity practices for securing cloud-based infrastructure. Implementing DevSecOps best practices, such as infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and release automation. Delivering containerised cloud applications and cloud-native architectures. Working with popular CI/CD stacks (e.g., GitHub, BitBucket, Jenkins, GitLab, SonarQube, Nexus, Helm, Docker, CircleCI, Chartmuseum, Kubernetes, ArgoCD). Using scripting tools and languages like bash, Python, or Groovy. Utilising configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt. Administering Linux systems at the RHCSA level or equivalent experience. Configuring SRE tools for monitoring and alerting (e.g., Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Zabbix, ELK). Working in agile development environments and knowledge of agile methodologies (Scrum, XP, Kanban). Multi-supplier technical and commercial project environments. Previous developer experience is beneficial but not essential. Benefits: Base Salary: £65,000 - £90,000 (DoE) Discretionary Bonus - 10% DV Bonus £7,000 Cash Fund: £6,000 Health: Private Medical Insurance Annual Leave: 25 Days plus Public Holidays buy up to 10 additional days L&D: Annual Performance/Salary Reviews Training & Development Budget Pension: 8% Matched Pension Group Personal Pension Plan Life Assurance: Up to a maximum of four times the Earnings Cap Occupational Sick Pay Personal Accident Insurance For more information, apply below or contact us directly. Email: george.batesansonmccade.com Contact: 02077806706 DevOps Engineer