SC Cleared DevOps Engineer (EKS AWS)

Hays are now looking for an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer (EKS, AWS) for one of our local clients: £420 p/d Inside IR35 Remote SC Clearance required We're looking for a hands-on AWS DevOps Engineer to build, automate and…

Inside IR35 IT
Pay rate £420/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 18 August 2026

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£420 p/d Inside IR35

Hays are now looking for an SC Cleared DevOps Engineer (EKS, AWS) for one of our local clients:

£420 p/d Inside IR35
Remote
SC Clearance required

We're looking for a hands-on AWS DevOps Engineer to build, automate and support highly available cloud platforms and Kubernetes environments. You'll work across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability and platform modernisation, helping teams deliver secure and scalable microservices-based applications. [Ivana Pavi...gineer AWS | Word],

What you'll be doing

Managing AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
Operating and improving Kubernetes (EKS) platforms
Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI
Containerising and deploying applications with Docker and Helm
Implementing monitoring, alerting and logging using Prometheus and Grafana
Supporting microservices-based environments and platform modernisation initiatives
Driving automation, infrastructure as code and DevSecOps best practices
Providing incident response, RCA and production support for critical services
What we're looking for

Strong AWS experience (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC)
Kubernetes (EKS), Docker and Helm
Terraform and Ansible
GitLab CI/CD and Git
Prometheus and Grafana
Kafka and relational/non-relational databases (MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
Linux administration (RHEL/Ubuntu)
Experience supporting highly available production platforms and microservices architectures
Understanding of PKI, secrets management and IAM security controls
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