via Reed · 25 September 2026 ·3 days ago

DevOps Engineer

SR2
South West England Contract GBP 130,000 – 143,000
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DevOps Engineer | Defence Systems | Contract

Location: Wiltshire, hybrid (1-2 days a week on site)
Rate: £500 - 550 per day, Inside IR35
Start: ASAP
Duration: 6 months
Clearance: Active SC Clearance or higher

The role
This is a hands-on DevOps role across a mainly on-premises estate, while also standing up new Azure cloud environments. You'll own the pipelines, automation and infrastructure that get software safely into secure, controlled environments.

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure, repeatable releases

  • Provision and manage infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible

  • Run containerised workloads on Docker and Kubernetes

  • Help implement and secure new Azure environments alongside on-prem

  • Embed DevSecOps practices: secure configuration, scanning, vulnerability, access and secrets management

  • Set up monitoring, logging and alerting

  • Troubleshoot deployments and support rollback, recovery and disaster recovery

  • Produce the documentation and assurance evidence that secure delivery needs

What you'll bring
  • A background in DevOps, platform, infrastructure or cloud engineering

  • Hands-on Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes and Azure

  • CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps or Jenkins, plus Git (JFrog is a plus)

  • Scripting in Bash, Python or PowerShell

  • Comfort working to governance and change control in regulated environments

  • Clear, concise communication

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