eDV DevOps Engineer

Techshack Recruitment LTD; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 128,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Techshack Recruitment LTD is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with active eDV clearance for a hybrid, UK-based role. The position offers an initial 6-month contract, with potential extension, and a daily rate up to £800 outside IR35.

You’ll work on secure, mission-critical programmes across London, Cheltenham or Manchester. Key responsibilities include designing secure infra, building CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform, and operating in Azure or GCP with Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Active eDV clearance – essential.
• Strong commercial DevOps/Cloud Engineering experience.
• Proven CI/CD expertise and IaC experience (Terraform).
• Experience with Azure and/or Google Cloud, Kubernetes.
• Scripting/automation skills and security-aware mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, highly available infrastructure and platforms.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Work with cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps tooling.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
• Support containerised environments and orchestration platforms.
• Automate processes to improve reliability, scalability and deployment speed.
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure, applications and deployment pipelines.
• Work closely with developers, architects and other technical teams.
• Ensure solutions meet stringent security and operational requirements.

Skills

eDV clearance

DevOps / Cloud Engineering

CI/CD

Terraform

Azure / GCP

Kubernetes

Scripting / Automation

Security in cloud

Tools

Terraform

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Git/GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps

Job description

eDV Cleared DevOps Engineer – Contract

Location: London / Cheltenham / Manchester – Hybrid
Rate: Up to £800 per day
IR35: Outside IR35
Clearance: Active eDV Clearance Required
Contract: Initial 6 months, with potential extension

We are currently working with a leading organisation within the UK public sector who are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with active eDV clearance to join their team on an exciting long-term programme.

This is a great opportunity for a technically strong DevOps professional to work on highly secure, mission-critical environments within the national security/public sector space.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, highly available infrastructure and platforms.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.

• Work with cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps tooling.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.

• Support containerised environments and orchestration platforms.

• Automate processes to improve reliability, scalability and deployment speed.

• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure, applications and deployment pipelines.

• Work closely with developers, architects and other technical teams.

• Ensure solutions meet stringent security and operational requirements.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Active eDV clearance – essential.

• Strong commercial experience within a DevOps / Cloud Engineering role.

• Strong CI/CD experience.

• Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally Terraform.

• Experience with Azure and/or GCP.

• Experience with Kubernetes / containerised environments.

• Strong scripting/automation skills.

• Good understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking and security.

• Experience working within secure, complex or public-sector environments.

Desirable

• Previous experience working within Defence, Government or National Security.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and/or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

• Experience with Git, GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps.

• Linux administration.

• Strong automation background using Python, Bash or PowerShell.

The Opportunity

• Up to £800 per day

• Outside IR35

• Hybrid working

• Choice of London, Cheltenham or Manchester

• Initial 6-month contract

• Opportunity for extension

• Work on highly secure, technically challenging programmes

• Active eDV clearance required

Please note: Due to the nature of the work, active eDV clearance is essential and candidates must be eligible to work on UK Government programmes.