Senior DevOps Engineer - eDV Cleared

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer - eDV Cleared
Location: Cheltenham/Manchester/London/Scarborough - 5 days per week onsite
Salary/Rate: £700/1000 per day inside IR35
Start Date: 27/07/2026
Job Type: Contract - 6 months

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer with active eDV clearance to join their team for a six-month contract.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

In this role, you'll work across both business-as-usual support and project activity, helping to ensure platforms remain stable, resilient and fit for purpose. You'll be trusted to take ownership of incidents, proactively monitor system health and act as a key point of contact for Elastic-related services. You'll be supported by experienced colleagues, encouraged to share knowledge, and given the space to develop your skills while working within well-established ITIL-based service management processes.
This is an office-based role and can be based in London, Gloucestershire, Manchester or North Yorkshire.

• Investigating, triaging and resolving incidents and stories efficiently and promptly.
• Proactively monitoring and maintaining system health to ensure high service availability.
• Acting as a focal point for Elastic-related problems, issues, changes and queries.
• Working across a mixture of business-as-usual and project-based activities.
• Following ITIL-based service management processes in a disciplined and structured way.
• Developing and maintaining effective relationships with customers and third-party suppliers.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Experience working with virtualised environments, including containerisation and Kubernetes.
• Practical knowledge of infrastructure as code approaches.
• Experience using scripting and automation to support system reliability and efficiency.
• Working knowledge of computer networking concepts, including routing, firewalls and proxies.
• Experience administering and supporting Linux operating systems.
• Knowledge of digital certificates, authentication methods and certificate authority services.

Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

• Experience with Kibana, Elasticsearch and Elastic Cloud Enterprise.
• Knowledge of Elastic products, including ECE.
• Experience with Ansible and Bash scripting.
• Experience using Terraform.
• Knowledge of PKI.
• Awareness of Apache NiFi.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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