DevOps Engineer - SC Cleared - Hybrid - Inside IR35

VIQU IT; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

VIQU IT is seeking a DevOps Engineer with valid SC Clearance to join a London-based, hybrid team supporting critical infrastructure environments, including defence or blue light services. The role emphasizes secure, reliable, high-performing services, automation, and problem solving within an agile setup.

Ideal candidates will have on-prem Kubernetes/OpenShift exposure, Terraform IAC, Jenkins CI/CD, and strong observability with ELK, Splunk, and Grafana across Azure or AWS cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• SC Clearance valid and transferable.
• Background in defence/military/nuclear DevOps.
• Experience in air-gapped environments.
• Production environment experience with on-prem Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Terraform IAC with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
• Observability with end-to-end logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards; alerting (ELK, Splunk, Grafana).
• Cloud platforms Azure or AWS.

Skills

SC Clearance

Production environment

Issue resolution

On-prem Kubernetes/OpenShift

Cloud awareness (Azure/AWS)

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Kubernetes

OpenShift

ELK

Splunk

Grafana

Azure

AWS

Job description

DevOps Engineer - Security Cleared - London - Hybrid - Inside IR35

DevOps Engineer with valid and transferrable SC Clearance with a background of supporting critical infrastructure environments such as defence or blue light services, you will join an engineering team responsible for maintaining secure, reliable and high performing services - that underpin the core system, you will enjoy problem solving, automation and working in an agile environment with modern tooling.

Mandatory Experience:

• SC Clearance - valid and transferrable
• Defence / Military / Nuclear background performing a DevOps role
• Previous experience of working in an "air gapped" environment
• Issue resolution and roadmap driven enhancements
• Experience of working within a production environment, with strong on-prem Kubernetes / OpenShift deployments
• IAC using Terraform with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)
• Observability tools to include design and operate end to end logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards to include alerting systems using ELK, Splunk, Grafana
• Cloud platforms to include: Azure or AWS