SC Cleared DevOps Engineer

VIQU IT; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

VIQU IT is seeking an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer to join a London-based team operating in a hybrid model. You will maintain secure, reliable, and high-performing services that underpin critical infrastructure, automating where possible and solving complex problems in an agile environment.

Key focus areas include on-prem Kubernetes/OpenShift, Terraform with CI/CD (Jenkins), robust observability (ELK, Splunk, Grafana), and cloud platforms (Azure or AWS).

Qualifications

• SC Clearance required and transferable.
• Experience in air-gapped environments.
• Strong issue resolution and roadmap-driven enhancements.
• Production experience with on-prem Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• IaC using Terraform with CI/CD (Jenkins).
• Observability: logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards (ELK/Splunk/Grafana).
• Cloud platforms: Azure or AWS.

Responsibilities

• Maintain secure, reliable, and high-performing services underpinning core systems.
• Collaborate in an agile engineering team and drive automation.
• Support production environments with robust incident response and improvements.

Skills

SC Clearance

Air gapped environment

Issue resolution

On-prem Kubernetes/OpenShift

Terraform CI/CD Jenkins

Observability stack

Azure/AWS cloud

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

Jenkins

ELK

Splunk

Grafana

Azure

AWS

Job description

SC Cleared DevOps Engineer - London - Hybrid - Inside IR35

My client seeks to recruit an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer, within this role you work as part of a collaborative 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


• 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

If you are an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer with experience of supporting a critical infrastructure environment / blue light (defence, military, nuclear) understanding the importance of P1 service availability.

We’ll thank you with up to £1,000 if your referral is successful (terms apply).