Lead DevOps Engineer - SC Cleared at Cabinet Office, London, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

Note: SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks.  Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position, (and speed at which we require a postholder in situ), preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance

Overview

Currently, delivery teams seeking to build or procure digital products within the Cabinet Office must navigate a highly complex and fragmented assurance landscape. Critical compliance rules and policies are often hidden or difficult to locate, and the manual nature of the process frequently traps teams in frustrating administrative bottlenecks and dependency loops.

To address this, we are developing a "Digital Assurance Navigator" platform that translates these complex policies into an automated, machine-readable rules engine. Because we are currently in the Alpha phase, we are prototyping an intelligent, AI-driven interface that interviews users about their project and dynamically generates a tailored, step-by-step checklist of exactly what is required to achieve compliance.

We are seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to help us map this complex ecosystem and design an intuitive, user-centred journey that removes friction and guides teams safely from inception to deployment

Deliverables

Job description

The Lead DevOps Engineer will contribute to and lead activities related to building on our AWS platforms. This includes building new products, and re‐platforming workloads to cloud‐native architectures. They will design and implement secure, scalable, and cost‐efficient AWS solutions using modern engineering patterns such as containerisation, serverless computing, automated IaC deployments, and improved observability.

You will work closely with a product, UCD, and engineering team to ensure the adoption of modern platforms and tooling while embedding best practice approaches for resilience, automation, and operational readiness across services.

Tools and Technologies

We are keen for Engineers to continue learning new technologies. We have a large range in the Cabinet Office including:

Main responsibilities