Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer

Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer (SC / DV Cleared)

Location: London / Manchester / Bristol / Birmingham (Hybrid)

Clearance: SC or DV required

Rate: Competitive

Overview

We are supporting a central government organisation building and scaling a new capability across secure, data-driven and AI-enabled services.

They are looking for a hands-on DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer who can operate across complex, hybrid environments - someone comfortable working at the intersection of infrastructure, automation and delivery.

This is not a pure cloud or platform role. The focus is on building, automating and improving real-world environments, often within constrained and evolving estates.

The Role

You will play a key role in:

• Designing, building and maintaining secure infrastructure environments
• Automating infrastructure and deployment processes using modern tooling
• Supporting the creation of test environments, POCs and scalable delivery pipelines
• Working across hybrid estates (on-prem, virtualised and cloud)
• Improving reliability, repeatability and efficiency of infrastructure deployments
• Collaborating with engineering, security and delivery teams within a secure government setting

What We're Looking For

We're looking for engineers who are:

• Strongly hands-on and delivery-focused
• Comfortable working in complex, imperfect or legacy environments
• Able to take ownership and "get things working" end-to-end

Key Experience

• Proven experience in a DevOps / Infrastructure / Platform Engineering role
• Strong background in infrastructure build, configuration and automation
• Experience working across hybrid environments (not just cloud-native)

Tooling & Technologies

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible (or similar)
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab or similar
• Scripting: PowerShell, Bash or Python
• Cloud: AWS and/or Azure
• Virtualisation / Infrastructure: VMware, Hyper V or similar
• Operating Systems: Windows and/or Linux

Highly Desirable

• Experience working within UK Government or secure environments
• Exposure to:
  • Building POC / test environments
  • Automating infrastructure at scale
  • Working with secure or restricted systems
• Understanding of DevOps in regulated or controlled environments

Why Join

• Opportunity to work on high impact, mission critical systems
• Be part of a growing capability with long-term investment
• Work on real engineering challenges, not just greenfield cloud builds
• Play a key role in shaping how infrastructure and DevOps is delivered in a secure environment