DevOps Engineer

• Location: Hybrid (Predominantly remote, with approx. 1 day per week in London and/or Bristol/Bath) • Clearance Required: Active SC Clearance • Engagement via: Consultancy

Job Description

Lead DevOps Engineer (Contract)

• Position Type: 6 months contract • Rate: £650 Inside IR35 • Location: Hybrid (Predominantly remote, with approx. 1 day per week in London and/or Bristol/Bath) • Clearance Required: Active SC Clearance • Engagement via: Consultancy

A technology consultancy is seeking an experienced, client-facing Lead DevSecOps Engineer for an immediate contract engagement. You will drive, coordinate, and scale DevSecOps practices across a high-profile digital transformation programme within the UK Defence sector.

This role requires an immediate-impact engineer who can operate as a technical anchor, embedding modern GitOps workflows and stringent security compliance across a multi-cloud estate spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This is a "hands-on and leading others" contract role.

Key Deliverables

• Deploy and Govern Pipelines: Rapidly evaluate, design, and improve secure, automated CI/CD and GitOps pipelines across multiple integrated product teams. • Vulnerability Management: Seamlessly integrate automated security scanning into build/deployment workflows and manage the vulnerability lifecycle (including allowlist processes and pragmatical risk acceptance). • Multi-Cloud Policy Enforcement: Standardize secrets management,…