Company: Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd

Apply for the SC Cleared DevOps Engineer – 1 Day a month onsite in Leeds

Location: Leeds

Job Description:

Start Date: ASAP (subject to SC clearance transfer)
Clearance: Active SC Clearance required

Overview
We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud & Platform Engineer to design, build, and support secure cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise data platforms within a highly secure environment.

Key Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and maintain secure AWS infrastructure and networking services.
Build and manage CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, GitLab CI, and GitHub.
Support big data platforms using Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR, Athena, and Redshift.
Implement monitoring, logging, security, and compliance controls across cloud environments.
Drive automation, containerisation, and platform resilience using Kubernetes, Python, and DevOps best practices.

Essential Skills & Experience

Strong AWS experience, including services such as VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, KMS, Lambda, EMR, Athena, and Redshift.
Hands-on experience with Terraform and CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, Concourse, GitHub).
Strong Linux administration experience.
Experience with big data technologies including Hadoop, Hive, Spark, and Amazon EMR (or equivalent).
Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and security tools.

Desirable Skills

Kubernetes/EKS or other container platforms.
Python Scripting and automation.
Azure infrastructure experience.
Experience with Kong, Vault, SonarQube, Tenable, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.

Technologies AWS, Terraform, GitHub, GitLab CI, Concourse, Linux, Python, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR, Athena, Redshift, DynamoDB, MySQL, Vault, Tenable, SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Azure….

Posted: August 21st, 2026