Sc Cleared Devops Engineer (On-Prem)

Viqu Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Viqu Limited is recruiting an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer in London for a hybrid, on-premises role. You will help maintain secure, high-availability systems and lead improvements across CI/CD, tooling and observability.

The role requires hands-on Kubernetes/OpenShift, Terraform, Jenkins, and strong incident-management and Agile/DevOps experience. Inside IR35 is noted in the vacancy details.

Qualifications

• SC clearance is required.
• Strong experience with on-prem Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments.
• Hands-on DevOps tooling upgrades and roadmap-driven improvements.
• Linux systems administration in high-availability environments.
• Terraform IaC integrated with Jenkins CI/CD.
• Automation-first mindset across build, deployment, CI/CD, and release processes.
• Observability with logging/metrics via ELK, Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana.
• Incident-management leadership and post-incident reviews.
• Solid grasp of Agile/DevOps practices and coordinating teams.
• Cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Support, maintain and develop changes.
• Collaborate with solution designers on roadmaps and end-to-end domain architecture.
• Work with the wider team to maintain the tool chain.

Skills

SC Clearance

Kubernetes/OpenShift

DevOps tooling

Linux administration

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Observability stack

Incident management

Agile & DevOps

Cloud platforms

Jenkins

ELK

Prometheus

Grafana

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Jenkins

ELK

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

SC Cleared DevOps Engineer (on-prem) - London Hybrid - Inside IR35

My client seeks to recruit an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer, you will join a collaborative multi-disciplinary team who are fundamental to the maintaining the security, reliability of the high performing services that underpin core business activity.

Joining as an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer your core tasks will include but not limited to:

• Supporting, maintaining and developing changes
• Collaborating / directing with solution designers with regards to product roadmaps and end to end architecture of the Domain
• Working with the wider team maintaining the tool chain

Core Skills to include:

• SC Clearance
• Strong experience with on-prem Kubernetes / OpenShift deployments.
• Hands-on contribution to DevOps tooling upgrades, issue resolution, and roadmap-driven improvements.
• Linux systems administration experience in high-availability production environments.
• Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, integrated with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
• Automation-first mindset across build, deployment, CI/CD, and release processes.
• Familiar with Observability functions, designing and operating end-to-end logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting systems using ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Incident-management leadership - owning major incident response, prioritisation, real-time coordination, stakeholder communication, and supporting post-incident reviews and reliability improvements.
• Thorough understanding of Agile and modern DevOps practices, able to coordinate colleagues and organise priorities, to deliver collaboratively alongside other teams
• Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS or GCP)