DevOps Engineer/ Lead in Farnborough, Hampshire

UNLEASH YOUR POTENTIAL

Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people and our community. Our mission and our values guide the way we do business. The foundations of our Leidos culture are our Values, Beliefs and Expectations by which we select, recognise and reward employees. They create the environment that drives us toward our mission.

The UK National Security, Defence and Intelligence Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a DevOps Engineer to work remotely. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience supporting the Metropolitan Police mission. In this role, you will support the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of cloud-based platforms and delivery pipelines. You will work closely with engineering and platform teams to automate infrastructure, enhance CI/CD processes, and maintain reliable, scalable environments.

Your Role and Primary Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and YAML configurations
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Deploy, manage, and support Azure services across IaaS and PaaS environments
• Automate routine operational and deployment tasks
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure, applications, and deployment pipelines
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications running in Kubernetes environments
• Use kubectl commands to manage deployments, pods, services, and namespaces
• Investigate issues using logs, exec, and describe commands
• Perform rollouts, restarts, and scaling activities
• Work with containerised applications (Docker or similar)
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve build, release, and deployment processes
• Contribute to platform stability, performance, and security
• Support technical documentation (runbooks, deployment guides)
• Contribute to well-structured release notes

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role
• Strong Microsoft Azure experience
• CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins)
• Terraform experience
• YAML proficiency
• Kubernetes experience
• Strong use of kubectl commands
• Containerisation experience (Docker or similar)
• Scripting (PowerShell/Bash)
• Experience working with Jira in Agile environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Confluence experience
• Azure Monitor / Log Analytics experience
• Cloud security and governance understanding
• CI/CD best practices knowledge
• FinOps awareness
• Experience in enterprise or government environments

What we do for you:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Flexi-Time

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE - we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science. Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

• Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.
• Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.
• People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail.