SC Cleared Infrastructure Engineer (Remote) — Linux/Terraform

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

Job summary

Circle Recruitment is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer for a government project in Cardiff. The role is largely remote with quarterly onsite attendance, and offers a contract until April at £550-£600 per day Inside IR35.

You will deliver and maintain secure, resilient infrastructure, lead security initiatives, and work with teams across the organisation to strengthen monitoring and incident response while ensuring compliance with policy and security standards.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering secure, resilient infrastructure and platform services.
• Ability to champion security best practices and protect data and services.
• Strong automation focus with a service, user, and risk perspective.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and maintain secure, resilient infrastructure and platform services.
• Champion security best practices to protect confidentiality, integrity and availability.
• Drive continuous improvement and automation for security, resilience and operational effectiveness.
• Build, administer, support and maintain secure, compliant solutions per policies and standards.
• Provide expert advice on secure environments, identity access management, configuration hardening and vulnerability management.
• Help ensure critical services remain secure, available and resilient against threats.

Skills

Linux

Terraform

Docker

AWS

Security Principles

Bash

Python

Job description

Circle Recruitment is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer for a government project in Cardiff. The role is largely remote with quarterly onsite attendance, and offers a contract until April at £550-£600 per day Inside IR35.

You will deliver and maintain secure, resilient infrastructure, lead security initiatives, and work with teams across the organisation to strengthen monitoring and incident response while ensuring compliance with policy and security standards.