DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared - Inside IR35)

LA International; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

LA International is seeking SC Cleared Engineers with DevOps and platform-engineering experience to support the development, operation and continual improvement of an enterprise observability capability.

You will work within an established multidisciplinary team to implement and maintain infrastructure, configuration, automation and integration components supporting Dynatrace and related services across AWS and Azure in client environments.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable DevOps/infra changes via version control and automated pipelines.
• IaC experience with Terraform or similar declarative automation.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS or Azure) incl identity and security.
• Observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerting.
• Testing, releasing and supporting live services; incident handling.
• Security considerations and least-privilege in changes.

Responsibilities

• Support development, operation and continual improvement of an enterprise observability capability.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure, configuration, automation and integration components.
• Integrate Dynatrace services across AWS and Azure in client environments.
• Contribute to change validation, documentation and rollout planning.

Skills

DevOps

Platform engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Version control

Security best practices

Observability concepts

Incident response

Automation scripting

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Dynatrace

Job description

We are looking for SC Cleared Engineers with DevOps and platform-engineering experience to support the development, operation and continual improvement an enterprise observability capability.

Working within an established multidisciplinary engineering team, the engineers will implement and maintain infrastructure, configuration, automation and integration components supporting Dynatrace and associated services across AWS, Azure and Client environments.

Experience Required:

• Demonstrable experience of delivering DevOps, platform or infrastructure engineering changes using version controlled code, peer review and automated deployment pipelines.
• Practical experience of infrastructure as code or configuration as code, using Terraform or a comparable declarative automation technology, including the safe management of environment-specific configuration.
• Experience of implementing or supporting services in at least one major cloud platform, preferably AWS or Azure, including identity, connectivity, security and operational considerations.
• Experience of building, integrating or operating monitoring and observability capabilities, including practical use of metrics, logs, traces, events, dashboards and actionable alerting.
• Experience of testing, releasing and supporting changes to live services, including functional and integration validation, deployment verification, incident investigation, documentation, rollback or roll-forward planning and production support.

Candidates should be able to provide examples of:

• Delivering a technical change through source control, review, testing and deployment.
• Automating an infrastructure, platform or configuration activity.
• Diagnosing an operational or integration issue using technical evidence.
• Applying security and least-privilege considerations to an engineering change.
• Creating or maintaining documentation, runbooks or support information.
• Working within established architecture and standards while escalating decisions outside their authority.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance.

An award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over multiple years. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience.

Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.