Senior DevOps Engineer in Stockport

Overview

AeroCloud is the next‑generation operating system for airports, offering Airport Operating Systems, Passenger Processing Systems, and Passenger Flow Management solutions that enable airports to gain deep insights into passenger and aircraft movements.

Job Responsibilities

• Act as design authority for how applications are deployed and operated globally.
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions, document them, and stand behind them.
• Treat deployment pipelines, rollout tooling, and automation as first‑class products.
• Build strong automation around deployment, validation, auditing, and reporting.
• Think in terms of application lifecycle, blast radius, and recovery — not just infrastructure.
• Work closely with product and engineering teams while operating as an independent technical owner.
• Design, build, and own a new global system for deploying and operating airport applications.
• Support continuous delivery from the company side while allowing airports and airlines to adopt new versions on their own schedules.
• Provide application versioning by site, tenant, and location, with strong visibility into what is running where.
• Deliver incremental and zero‑downtime deployments suitable for live airport operations.
• Implement safe rollout strategies (canarying, staged releases, validation gates) and fast, reliable rollback.
• Deliver monitoring and reporting focused on application health.
• Operate across multiple Azure tenants and evaluate AWS or hybrid approaches where appropriate.
• Design how application configuration, identity, and policy should work at scale.
• Support multi‑site and occasionally disconnected environments with small onsite infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying applications to thousands of machines globally.
• Designed or rebuilt large‑scale application deployment systems, not just CI pipelines.
• Strong experience with Windows‑hosted applications (Windows 10/11, Windows Server).
• Delivered zero‑ or near‑zero‑downtime application rollouts in operationally sensitive environments.
• Deep automation and CI/CD experience, with clear opinions backed by experience.
• Worked across multiple cloud tenants or regions at growing scale.
• A history of choosing tools based on outcomes rather than ideology.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Best‑in‑class share‑options scheme
• Flexible working environment
• 25 days annual leave + statutory holidays
• Birthday leave (take your birthday off on us)
• Employee assistance program
• Extensive upskilling and training opportunities
• Company pension scheme
• Employee perks and discounts
• Salary sacrifice schemes – Cycle to Work and EV scheme
• Digital nomad policy (work abroad up to 4 weeks a year)

AeroCloud recognises diversity, equality, and inclusion at the heart of our business. We are an equal opportunities employer. If you have specific work or access requirements as a result of a condition or disability, we are committed to working with you to find the best way to support you at work.