

Insight International (UK) Ltd
Security Ops Engineer
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This role is for a Security Ops Engineer on a contract basis in Birmingham, UK (Hybrid). Key skills required include hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and SQL. Strong problem-solving abilities and proficiency in a programming language are essential.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
October 10, 2025
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Kubernetes #Security #MySQL #Integration Testing #Terraform #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Debugging #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Scripting #Programming #Databases
Role description
Role- Security Ops Engineer
Location- Birmingham, UK (Hybrid)
Employment type- Contract
Operations Job Spec
• Evidence of hands-on (job) experience with AWS & Kubernetes (mandatory)
• Learning projects are not enough, they need to have worked on live projects that use this stack.
• Good understanding of different network protocols/tech, how, when, where and why you would use one over the other e.g.
• HTTP(S)
• ICMP
• DNS
• ARP
• SSH
• etc.
• Must be able to debug and fix networking problems in an AWS environment.
• Good understanding of databases/sql.
• Should be able to log in to any database (postgres/mysql/etc) and execute basic commands.
• Be an independent problem solver, needs to be able to be given a problem and present/implement solutions without support from others.
• Hands-on (job experience) use of IAC (`terraform`) mandatory
• Evidence of being able to fix errors in `terraform` runs.
• Good communication & writing skills
• Well practiced in at least one _real_ programming language.
• `shell`, `powershell` or any other scripting language is not enough.
• Knowledge of development processes and pipeline execution, such as:
• TDD/BDD
• Unit & Integration testing
• Vulnerability scanning
• Debugging and Fixing CI workflows
Role- Security Ops Engineer
Location- Birmingham, UK (Hybrid)
Employment type- Contract
Operations Job Spec
• Evidence of hands-on (job) experience with AWS & Kubernetes (mandatory)
• Learning projects are not enough, they need to have worked on live projects that use this stack.
• Good understanding of different network protocols/tech, how, when, where and why you would use one over the other e.g.
• HTTP(S)
• ICMP
• DNS
• ARP
• SSH
• etc.
• Must be able to debug and fix networking problems in an AWS environment.
• Good understanding of databases/sql.
• Should be able to log in to any database (postgres/mysql/etc) and execute basic commands.
• Be an independent problem solver, needs to be able to be given a problem and present/implement solutions without support from others.
• Hands-on (job experience) use of IAC (`terraform`) mandatory
• Evidence of being able to fix errors in `terraform` runs.
• Good communication & writing skills
• Well practiced in at least one _real_ programming language.
• `shell`, `powershell` or any other scripting language is not enough.
• Knowledge of development processes and pipeline execution, such as:
• TDD/BDD
• Unit & Integration testing
• Vulnerability scanning
• Debugging and Fixing CI workflows