Security Cleared DevOps Engineer

Solirius Reply; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Bonus Scheme

Private Healthcare Insurance

25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays

Up to 10 days for development training per year

Enhanced Parental Leave

Paid Fertility Leave (5 Days)

Statutory & Contributory Pension

EAP with Help@Hand

Gym Membership Benefits

Flexible Working

Annual Away Days/Company Socials

Job summary

Solirius Reply seeks a motivated DevOps Engineer to join its Software Engineering Practice. In this role, you will implement and manage solutions for scalable cloud services, primarily on Microsoft Azure. You will engage with clients to understand their requirements and collaborate with teams to improve development processes.

The ideal candidate will have substantial DevOps experience, strong coding skills, and a consultative approach. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits, including healthcare and flexible working, are offered.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical mindset and adaptability.
• Excellent communication skills and consultative approach.
• Motivation and passion for technology in problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Understanding client requirements and engaging with stakeholders.
• Implementing scalable citizen-facing and private services.
• Managing continuous delivery systems across cloud environments.

Skills

Substantial DevOps experience

Microsoft Azure

Commercial hands-on coding (IaC)

Experience in Agile/Lean methodologies

Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment pipelines

Advocating DevOps principles

Experience in Government/Public Sector

Azure certification

Job description

About Us

Solirius Reply, part of the Reply Group, delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever‑changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients' needs. It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 300 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future. We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants' expertise in their fields in order to provide a best‑in‑class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.

About You

You are a motivated and adaptable professional with a strong analytical mindset and a passion for using technology to solve real‑world problems. You enjoy working in collaborative, agile teams and take pride in delivering high‑quality solutions that make a tangible impact. With strong communication skills and a consultative approach, you are comfortable engaging with clients, understanding their needs, and translating them into effective outcomes. You understand and align with Solirius Reply Values.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Software Engineering Practice as a DevOps Engineer, to work alongside our team and help build out the capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding client requirements, liaising with stakeholders and speaking with managers
• Implementing solutions to deploy and maintain highly available and scalable citizen‑facing and private services and applications
• Implementing and managing continuous delivery systems and methodologies across cloud environments (Azure)
• Providing feedback to project teams on how the platform is workingAdvise developers on how they use specific systems and configure CI/CD pipelinesAutomating and improving the development and release processes

Key Skills / Experience

• Substantial DevOps experience
• Microsoft Azure is essential; beneficial to have exposure to AWS and GCP
• Commercial hands‑on coding – Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is essential
• Ideally experience or exposure to Agile/Lean methodologies
• Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment pipelines
• Ability to advocate DevOps principles, practices and philosophy
• Beneficial to have worked within the Government previously or Public Sector
• Azure certification beneficial

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Bonus Scheme
• Private Healthcare Insurance
• 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
• Up to 10 days allocated for development training per year
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Paid Fertility Leave (5 Days)
• Statutory & Contributory Pension
• EAP with Help@Hand
• Gym Membership Benefits
• Flexible Working
• Annual Away Days/Company Socials

Equality & Diversity

Solirius Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages, and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics. Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.