DevOps Engineer - Contract

AWS DevOps Engineer - Contract (SC Cleared)

Rate: £575 p/day Inside IR35

Duration: 4-5 months initially with high likelihood of extension

Start: ASAP (pending clearance transfer)

Location: Home-based with occasional London site visits

Clearance: Active SC required

Overview
An opportunity for an experienced Principal AWS DevOps Engineer to lead the design and optimisation of large-scale cloud and DevOps environments within a secure, high-impact programme with the Home Office.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and automation of scalable AWS infrastructure

• Build and optimise enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines

• Provide technical leadership across DevOps best practices

• Influence architecture and drive continuous improvement

• Mentor engineers and support incident resolution

Key Skills & Experience

• 10+ years AWS engineering across large, mission-critical platforms

• Strong IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK)

• Advanced CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline)

• Containers & orchestration (Docker, EKS/ECS)

• Linux/Windows, networking, monitoring & observability

• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills

• Experience supporting Java-based platforms

Nice to Have

• AWS certifications

• Chef/Puppet/Ansible

• Enterprise Cloud Landing Zone experience

Summary
A senior-level DevOps contract role offering strong rates, flexible working, and the chance to shape complex AWS environments - active SC clearance essential.