Cloud Engineer (Defence)
Location: South West (onsite, 4 days per week)
Rate: £700800 per day (Outside IR35)
Clearance: DV (Developed Vetting) active or recently lapsed
Join a high-profile Defence programme delivering complex, mission-critical cloud environments. This role sits within a secure engineering team, building and maintaining highly available Kubernetes and Terraform-based infrastructure for classified systems.
Key Focus
* Hands-on cloud engineering within secure environments (more engineering than architectural design).
* Ownership of Kubernetes-based platform build, deployment, and optimisation.
* Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform in multi-tenant, air-gapped, and Terraform Cloud environments.
* Cloud-native testing, verification, and automation of platform reliability.
* Contribution to the secure delivery and compliance of cloud platforms supporting Defence systems.
Required Skills & Experience
1. DV Clearance (current or lapsed within 12 months).
2. Strong Kubernetes engineering experien...