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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, identity/access management (IAM), and policy enforcement across AWS, Azure, and OCI workloads.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with developers, infrastructure engineers, and testers to embed secure-by-design principles from day one.
- Observability and Resilience: Ensure robust logging, monitoring, and audit controls are functioning across all environments using cloud-native tools.
- Runbook Documentation: Author and maintain clear security processes, controls, and operational runbooks in Confluence to unify distributed engineering teams.
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Essential Skills And Experience
- Proven Technical Leadership: Experience establishing DevSecOps ways of working for distributed/hybrid teams while remaining deeply hands-on.
- Modern CI/CD and GitOps: Deep production experience with GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and Argo Rollouts for progressive delivery.
- Cloud Native Architecture: Strong hands-on engineering with containers and orchestration (Docker, AWS EKS) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Security and Observability Tooling: Hands-on experience with Trivy scanning, HashiCorp Vault, cert-manager, Grafana, and Loki.
- Automation: Expert scripting skills (Python, Bash) paired with robust cloud networking fundamentals (IAM, S3, network policies).
- Public Sector Delivery: Proven experience delivering within the Government Digital Service (GDS) lifecycle on a UK public sector engagement.
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Clearance and Logistics
Security Clearance
Due to the nature of the end-client estate, candidates holding an active MOD SC Clearance will be heavily prioritized to ensure immediate billing. Minimum BPSS is required to start, with the mandate to undergo SC processing.
Travel Requirements
This is a hybrid contract. While predominantly remote, you must be able to travel to client and consultancy sites in London and/or the Bristol/Bath area an average of 1 day per week (potentially more during critical delivery phases).
Rate
£600.00 - £650.00 / day
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