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SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™

Cloud Engineer - DV Cleared - Inside IR35

On site

Cheltenham, United kingdom

£ 600 /day

Freelance

03-12-2025

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Skills

Communication Bash GitHub GitLab CI/CD DevOps Docker Kubernetes Ansible Scrum Linux git AWS Agile Linux Administration

Job Specifications

Location: Cheltenham or Milton Keynes (2 days per month on-site, remainder remote)
Contract: 6 months
Day Rate: £550-£600

SR2 are supporting a government programme and seeking an experienced DV-Cleared Cloud Engineer to work within a highly secure environment on complex, large-scale cloud-native systems. This role suits an engineer with strong automation, AWS, and containerisation experience who can operate confidently in multidisciplinary teams.

Key Responsibilities

Automate application and infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment within a secure environment.
Contribute to CI/CD pipeline optimisation and cloud engineering best practice.
Apply strong security principles across cloud and containerised workloads.
Work collaboratively as part of an Agile/Scrum, cross-functional engineering team.
Support continuous improvement across tooling, processes, and delivery approaches.Essential Experience

Proven Cloud/DevOps engineering experience in secure or complex environments.
AWS (CloudFormation, ECS; AWS Developer Tools an advantage).
Docker and Kubernetes.
CI/CD automation (ideally DroneCI).
Git (GitHub or GitLab).
Advanced Linux administration and Bash scripting.
Ansible.
Strong understanding of security best practice (eg, mTLS, security groups, HTTP security headers).
Confident working within Agile, multidisciplinary teams with strong communication skills.Security Clearance
Active DV clearance is essential for this position.

If you are available for a January start and feel your experience aligns, please don't hesitate to apply.

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