DV Cleared Cloud Engineer

DV Cleared Cloud Engineer

Step into work that genuinely matters, at the highest level of trust.

We are working with a leading global IT and business consulting firm, deeply Embedded in UK Defence and National Security, to identify an experienced DV-cleared Cloud Engineer to join their defence team.

This is genuinely high-trust, high-impact work, building and operating secure cloud platforms that directly underpin the UK's most sensitive national security operations, alongside architects, security specialists and operations teams on programmes most engineers never get close to. Expect deep exposure to secure cloud architecture, automation and infrastructure-as-code, on systems where the consequences of getting it wrong are real.

Our client has an established track record spanning decades of delivering technology to UK Defence and intelligence agencies, with a genuine investment in growing its people, strong mentoring, clear routes into senior technical or leadership roles, and support to go deep into the areas you're most drawn to.

Essential:

• Active DV (Developed Vetting) clearance
• UK resident for a minimum of 10 years
• Due to the secure nature of the role, candidates must be sole UK nationals
• Hands-on cloud engineering experience (AWS, Azure or GCP), deployment, automation, or platform operations
• Comfortable working within the most highly secure, regulated environments

Desirable:

• Defence, Intelligence, or wider public sector background
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM)
• Military transition candidates with hands-on technical cloud experience

What's on offer: Competitive salary depending on experience, plus benefits package, structured career development, and the opportunity to work on the most sensitive and mission-critical technology in the sector.

Location: London or Regional