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DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared)

Inside IR35 Cloud and DevOps
£700–£800 per day
Source: Recruitment Agency
Posted today · Closes in 7 days · 16 Sep 2026
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Comparable market74 live roles New this week46 comparable roles Typical disclosed rate£544/day Outside IR3535% of comparable roles Remote / hybrid91% of comparable roles Skill-market signalActive skill cluster Kubernetes15 live roles Terraform11 live roles
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Contract Details

Pay rate£700–£800 per day
IR35 statusInside IR35
Contract durationNot disclosed
Start dateNot disclosed
Working arrangementHybrid
LocationLondon
Security clearanceSC — Active clearance required
IT specialismCloud and DevOps

Job description

DevOps Engineer with valid and transferrable SC Clearance with a background of supporting critical infrastructure environments such as defence or blue light services, you will join an engineering team responsible for maintaining secure, reliable and high performing services - that underpin the core system, you will enjoy problem solving, automation and working in an agile environment with modern tooling. 

Mandatory Experience: 

  • SC Clearance - valid and transferrable
  • Defence / Military / Nuclear background performing a DevOps role 
  • Previous experience of working in an "air gapped" environment
  • Issue resolution and roadmap driven enhancements 
  • Experience of working within a production environment, with strong on-prem Kubernetes / OpenShift deployments
  • IAC using Terraform with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)
  • Observability tools to include design and operate end to end logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards to include alerting systems using ELK, Splunk, Grafana 
  • Cloud platforms to include: Azure or AWS

If you are an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer with experience of supporting a critical infrastructure environment / blue light (defence, military, nuclear) understanding the importance of P1 service availability.  

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Comparable live roles7446 added in the last 7 days
Typical disclosed rate£544/day58 comparable roles disclose a usable rate
Outside IR3535%26 of 74 comparable live roles
Remote / hybrid91%67 comparable roles offer remote or hybrid working
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