SC Cleared DevOps Engineer - Bishopsgate

VIQU IT; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Referral bonus (£1,000)

Job summary

VIQU IT in London is hiring a SC Cleared DevOps Engineer for a hybrid role. You will join a collaborative engineering team to maintain secure, reliable and high-performing services that underpin our core system in an on-prem environment.

The role requires Terraform, Jenkins CI/CD, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and observability tooling (ELK, Splunk, Grafana) on AWS or Azure, with a focus on issue resolution and roadmap-driven enhancements. A referral bonus of up to £1,000 is offered.

Qualifications

• Valid and transferrable SC Clearance.
• Experience in air-gapped environments.
• Proven ability to resolve issues and drive roadmap enhancements.
• Strong on-prem Kubernetes/OpenShift experience.
• Terraform with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
• Observability tooling experience (ELK, Splunk, Grafana).
• Azure or AWS experience.
• Experience in critical infrastructure/blue light sectors.
• Understanding of P1 service availability.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate within a collaborative engineering team.
• Maintain secure, reliable, and high-performing services underpinning the core system.
• Problem solve and automate within an agile environment using modern tooling.
• Support issue resolution and deliver roadmap-driven enhancements.
• Design and operate observability tooling across logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.

Skills

SC Clearance

Air-gapped environment

Issue resolution

Roadmap-driven enhancements

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

Jenkins

ELK

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Valid and transferrable SC Clearance
• Previous experience of working in an air gapped environment
• Experience with issue resolution and roadmap-driven enhancements
• Experience working within a production environment with strong on-prem Kubernetes / OpenShift deployments
• Experience using Terraform for infrastructure as code with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)
• Experience with observability tools, including end-to-end logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting systems using ELK, Splunk, and Grafana
• Experience with cloud platforms including Azure or AWS
• Experience supporting a critical infrastructure environment or blue light sector such as defence, military, or nuclear
• Understanding of the importance of P1 service availability

Responsibilities:

• Work as part of a collaborative engineering team
• Maintain secure, reliable, and high-performing services that underpin the core system
• Problem solve and automate within an agile environment using modern tooling
• Support issue resolution and deliver roadmap-driven enhancements
• Design and operate observability tooling across logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting

Technologies:

• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• ELK
• Grafana
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Splunk
• Terraform

More:

We are hiring an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer for a London hybrid role inside IR35. You will join a collaborative engineering team focused on maintaining secure, reliable, and high-performing services that underpin our core system. We offer the opportunity to work in an agile environment with modern tooling, alongside strong on-prem Kubernetes / OpenShift deployments, Terraform-based infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling across Azure or AWS. We also mention a referral reward of up to £1,000 for successful referrals, terms apply.

last updated 37 week of 2026