Remote Infrastructure Engineer - SC Cleared, Linux/Terraform

Circle Recruitment; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 101,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Circle Recruitment is supporting a Government client based in Cardiff with an Infrastructure Engineer role that can be worked mainly remotely, with quarterly attendance.

The initial contract runs until 02/04, paying between £550 and £600 per day Inside IR35, with an Umbrella solution. The role focuses on delivering secure, resilient infrastructure and providing guidance on security, IAM, and incident response.

Qualifications

• Deliver and maintain secure, resilient infrastructure and platform services.
• Champion security best practices to protect data and services.
• Drive automation to strengthen security, resilience and operational effectiveness.
• Work in a team to build, administer, support, and maintain secure, compliant solutions.
• Provide expert advice on secure environments, IAM, configuration management, vulnerability management, monitoring, and incident response.
• Ensure critical services remain secure, available and resilient against evolving threats.
• Proficient with Linux, Terraform, Docker, AWS, security principles, Bash, Python.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and maintain secure, resilient infrastructure and platform services.
• Champion security best practices across systems.
• Drive automation to strengthen security, resilience, and operations.
• Collaborate with infrastructure team to maintain compliant solutions.
• Advise on secure environments, IAM, hardening, vulnerability management, monitoring, and incident response.
• Protect services against evolving cyber threats.
• Work with cross-functional teams to implement robust infrastructure.

Skills

Security principles

Linux

Bash

Python

AWS

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Circle Recruitment is supporting a Government client based in Cardiff with an Infrastructure Engineer role that can be worked mainly remotely, with quarterly attendance.

The initial contract runs until 02/04, paying between £550 and £600 per day Inside IR35, with an Umbrella solution. The role focuses on delivering secure, resilient infrastructure and providing guidance on security, IAM, and incident response.