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DevOps Engineer - SC Cleared Inside IR35 Hybrid - 50% on site About the Role We're seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a highly skilled engineering team responsible for supporting and enhancing a business-critical, high-availability platform that operates as part of the UK's essential financial infrastructure. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a complex enterprise environment where reliability, security, automation, and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything. You'll play a key role in the delivery, operation, and evolution of mission-critical services while helping to shape engineering best practices across the wider technology function. Key Responsibilities Support, maintain and enhance critical production services and platforms. Lead and contribute to infrastructure, tooling and automation improvements. Maintain and develop CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes. Manage environments and oversee safe promotion of code through non-production and production estates. Work closely with architects, developers, platform engineers and operational teams to deliver robust solutions. Provide technical leadership, mentoring and coaching to engineers across the team. Contribute to technology roadmaps, service improvements and strategic planning. Drive adoption of DevOps and Agile best practices. Support incident management activities, including major incident response and post-incident reviews. Participate in an out-of-hours support and release rota for a 24/7 production environment. Ensure operational standards, governance requirements and service level commitments are consistently met Required Experience We're interested in candidates who can demonstrate strong experience across: Production support within mission-critical or highly available environments. Kubernetes and/or OpenShift platforms, particularly in on-premise environments. Linux systems administration. Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. CI/CD tooling, ideally Jenkins. Automation of build, deployment and release processes. Monitoring, observability and platform reliability engineering. Logging, metrics and alerting solutions including technologies such as: ELK Stack Splunk Prometheus Grafana Leading or coordinating major incident response activities. Working within Agile delivery environments and modern DevOps practices. What We're Looking For Successful candidates will bring: Strong technical leadership and mentoring capabilities. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. A security-first approach to engineering and operations. Experience balancing operational support with continuous improvement initiatives. Strong documentation, governance and change management practices. The ability to thrive within a collaborative, cross-functional team environment. Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. Relevant technical certifications across technologies such as Red Hat, Microsoft, Oracle, Kubernetes or Kafka. Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering or a related discipline. Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Principal Data Architect DV Cleared Secure Government & Defence Programmes UK Hybrid + client site Active DV clearance non-negotiable Architecture that ends up in service, not in a slide pack. Datatech Analytics is supporting a leading UK consulting and technology organisation building secure, enterprise-scale data platforms across defence, national security and classified government programmes. We're engaging Principal Data Architects who want ownership, not oversight. The role You'll set and lead the technical direction of large-scale data platforms on mission-critical programmes working alongside senior stakeholders, engineers and delivery teams. Not advisory. You stay close to delivery and shape how platforms get built, deployed and used. What you'll do - Own enterprise data architecture across secure programmes - Design end-to-end platforms ingestion through to analytics and operational use - Build secure, scalable architectures for highly classified environments - Turn complex mission requirements into things that ship - Lead engineering teams through implementation - Shape long-term architectural strategy and capability The environment AWS, Azure, GCP Databricks, Snowflake lake, lakehouse and modern warehouse patterns distributed processing DevOps, IaC, secure deployment governance, access control, analytics enablement What we need - Active DV clearance - Track record delivering enterprise-scale data platforms - Defence, national security or secure government background - Deep cloud data architecture and secure design expertise - Credible with senior stakeholders - Led teams through complex delivery Why it matters These programmes sit at the core of the UK's secure data capability. Real constraints, real consequences, no sandbox platforms that support operational decisions when it counts. Confidential conversation: (url removed)