We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to improve the way software is built, tested, released and operated across our engineering environment.
You'll work closely with development and infrastructure teams to improve deployment pipelines, automate infrastructure and remove the manual steps that create delays or release risk. You'll also be involved when things go wrong in production, helping engineers identify whether the problem sits within the application, deployment process or underlying infrastructure.
This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll be expected to make changes yourself, maintain the tooling you introduce and take ownership of the reliability of the delivery process rather than simply managing tickets or coordinating releases.
What You'll Be Responsible For
- Design, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines used across development and production environments.
- Automate application builds, testing, deployments and infrastructure provisioning.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or equivalent tooling.
- Manage Kubernetes and Docker-based environments, including deployments, configuration, resource limits and troubleshooting.
- Work with developers to improve application deployment processes and reduce failed or manually managed releases.
- Implement deployment strategies such as rolling, blue-green or canary releases where appropriate.
- Maintain development, staging and production environments and ensure configuration remains consistent between them.
- Investigate failed builds, deployment errors, container issues and infrastructure-related production incidents.
- Develop scripts and internal tooling using Python, Bash, Go or PowerShell to remove repetitive operational work.
- Implement monitoring, logging and alerting around deployment pipelines and production services.
- Manage secrets, credentials and environment configuration using appropriate security controls.
- Review pipeline and infrastructure configurations for security weaknesses and unnecessary access.
- Support release planning and production changes for applications with strict availability requirements.
- Improve build and deployment performance by identifying bottlenecks within existing pipelines.
- Work with engineering teams to introduce practical standards for source control, branching, releases and infrastructure changes.
- Maintain documentation for deployment processes, infrastructure configuration and operational procedures.
- Take technical ownership of DevOps projects, including migrations and replacement of legacy tooling.
Skills & Experience
Essential
- 5+ years' commercial experience in DevOps Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE or a similar role.
- Strong experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines in production environments.
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or similar platforms.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably Terraform.
- Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience working with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
- Good scripting or programming ability using Python, Bash, Go or PowerShell.
- Understanding of Git workflows, branching strategies and release management.
- Good knowledge of networking concepts including DNS, HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP and load balancing.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, ELK or similar.
- Understanding of secrets management, IAM and secure CI/CD practices.
- Experience investigating production incidents and identifying the relationship between application, deployment and infrastructure problems.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with software engineers.
Desirable
- Experience with Helm, Argo CD or other Kubernetes deployment tools.
- Practical experience implementing GitOps.
- Knowledge of AWS EKS, ECS or Azure AKS.
- Experience with HashiCorp Vault or similar secrets-management platforms.
- Experience implementing automated security and quality checks within CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of Ansible or other configuration management tools.
- Experience with SonarQube, Snyk, Trivy or similar security and code-quality tooling.
- Relevant AWS, Azure, Kubernetes or DevOps certification.
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading DevOps implementation projects.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with annual performance review
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical insurance
- Company pension scheme
- £1,500 annual learning and development budget
Apply
If you have hands-on experience building deployment pipelines, automating infrastructure and supporting production environments, we'd like to hear from you.
Please submit your CV outlining the DevOps environments you have worked in, the CI/CD platforms and cloud technologies you have used, and examples of automation or delivery improvements you have implemented.
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted regarding the next stage of the recruitment process.
Pay: £80,000.00-£84,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
