SC-Cleared Principal DevOps Engineer - Hybrid (Manchester)

Searchability NS&D; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Searchability NS&D is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to join our Manchester-based team on a SC-cleared role. You will lead complex, production-grade infrastructure across cloud-native platforms, driving architecture and automation initiatives in collaboration with delivery teams.

The ideal candidate will have strong Linux, AWS, Kubernetes and CI/CD experience, plus a track record of technical leadership and stakeholder collaboration in a defence/public sector context.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux expertise (RHEL/CentOS) with experience supporting production systems.
• Git for version control and collaborative development (GitHub / GitLab)
• AWS cloud infrastructure, ideally with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Kubernetes and container technologies (Docker) for modern platform environments
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo)
• Strong understanding of modern platform architecture, microservices and cloud-native systems
• Good communication skills and ability to provide technical leadership.

Skills

Linux

Git

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Jenkins

Bamboo

Microservices

Cloud-native

Leadership

Tools

Ansible

Job description

Searchability NS&D is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to join our Manchester-based team on a SC-cleared role. You will lead complex, production-grade infrastructure across cloud-native platforms, driving architecture and automation initiatives in collaboration with delivery teams.

The ideal candidate will have strong Linux, AWS, Kubernetes and CI/CD experience, plus a track record of technical leadership and stakeholder collaboration in a defence/public sector context.