Olive Jar Digital is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support a public sector digital project, focusing on automating code security controls and improving shared engineering tooling.
You'll work with GitHub and Terraform to automate repository compliance checks, strengthen security controls and reduce the manual effort involved in code security reviews. Working closely with engineering and security stakeholders, you'll improve existing tooling, introduce automated checks and ensure results are documented and traceable.
This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone with experience in DevOps, infrastructure automation and GitHub security configuration.
What you'll be doingAutomating code security and repository compliance checks.
Improving shared GitHub tooling and Terraform-based configuration.
Integrating automated controls into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows.
Reviewing existing repositories, identifying gaps and implementing improvements.
Producing clear evidence of compliance checks, exceptions and areas requiring manual review.
Writing maintainable, tested code and technical documentation.
Collaborating with engineering and security teams to prioritise improvements and share knowledge.
Active SC security clearance is essential.
Strong experience configuring and managing GitHub repository controls and settings.
Hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure or configuration automation.
Experience developing automation to assess technical controls, configurations or compliance requirements.
Good understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
Experience maintaining existing codebases, troubleshooting issues and improving engineering tooling.
Ability to write production-quality code, maintain documentation and collaborate with technical stakeholders.
Code security frameworks and security assurance processes.
Policy-as-code or compliance automation.
Public sector or government digital project experience.
Working alongside cyber security, data protection or assurance teams.
Olive Jar Digital is a digital consultancy delivering technology, digital and transformation services across the public and private sectors. We work with talented professionals to help organisations solve complex challenges and deliver secure, effective digital services.
If you're a hands-on DevOps Engineer with strong GitHub and Terraform experience and an interest in automating security controls, we'd love to hear from you.
Skills Required
- Active SC security clearance
- Strong experience configuring and managing GitHub repository controls and settings
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure or configuration automation
- Experience developing automation to assess technical controls, configurations, or compliance requirements
- Good understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing
- Experience maintaining existing codebases, troubleshooting issues, and improving engineering tooling
- Ability to write production-quality code, maintain documentation, and collaborate with technical stakeholders
- Experience with code security frameworks and security assurance processes
- Experience with policy-as-code or compliance automation
- Public sector or government digital project experience
- Experience working alongside cybersecurity, data protection, or assurance teams
What We Do
Olive Jar Digital has extensive experience in building highly secure, resilient, highly available and scalable websites. We focus on user experience and only build what the end user needs and understands. We deliver our projects using the Agile methodology, in particular Scrum and Kanban. This enables us to deliver on time, on budget and focus on priorities that could shift at any moment. The consultants we engage are either people that we have worked with over the years, have been recommended based on their performance, or have been interviewed and tested by us first. With Olive Jar you get a professional, honest service where we look to build a relationship with you and support you over the years to come. We believe that in order to track the quality of performance effectively, our delivery team, the end client, and our account management team need to buy into a Continual Service Feedback and Improvement ethos. The resources we can provide include: • Full Agile Teams • Delivery Managers • Business Analysts • Technical Architects • Scrum Masters • User Experience Designers • Visual Designer • User Researchers • Developers / Developers in Test • Testers Specialties: IT Consultancy, Software Support, Software Development, Website Design, Agile Delivery, Continuous Delivery
