DevOps Engineer - Defence and National Security Location: Manchester city centre (Hybrid) + North West client sites Salary: 60,000 - 90,000 per annum Security: SC required to start, must be willing to obtain DVAre you a DevOps engineer looking for work that makes a real difference? We''re expanding a specialist team in Manchester and are looking for DevOps professionals from all technical backgrounds who want to apply their skills to impactful projects in Defence and National Security.You''ll play a key role in building and running secure, scalable platforms that support mission-critical services. We welcome engineers with different tech stack experience - what matters most is your passion for automation, reliability, and problem solving in a collaborative environment.What you''ll doDesign and implement CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.Build and manage cloud-native and containerised environments.Apply Infrastructure-as-Code, monitoring and Site Reliability Engineering principles to ensure resilience and performance.Collaborate with developers, testers, and client stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions.Share knowledge, contribute to a learning culture, and help shape the direction of a growing practice.What we''re looking forHands-on experience in DevOps engineering, regardless of stack (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).Strong understanding of automation and modern software delivery practices.Experience working in Agile teams.Curi