At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and maintain secure cloud infrastructure while automating processes for efficient software delivery.
- Company: Mission-led tech consultancy focused on delivering modern solutions to the UK Government and Defence sector.
- Benefits: Hybrid working, flexitime, learning budget, private healthcare, and career progression opportunities.
- Other info: Inclusive culture that values innovation and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Join a collaborative team and work on impactful projects that enhance national security.
- Qualifications: Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools is essential.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Are you someone who enjoys connecting the dots across complex systems, automating processes, and building reliable platforms that enable engineering teams to deliver at scale? Do you thrive in fast-paced, agile environments where innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement are part of everyday work? If so, we'd love to hear from you. We're partnering with a growing, mission-led technology consultancy delivering secure, modern software solutions to the UK Government and Defence sector.
As part of a collaborative engineering team, you'll help design, build, and support the cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment platforms behind high-impact digital services. Whether you're an experienced DevOps Engineer or looking to take the next step in your career, you'll have the opportunity to work on meaningful projects while developing your technical expertise alongside talented engineers.
The Role
As a DevOps Engineer, you'll work within small, high-performing agile teams, enabling the successful delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient applications. You'll play a key role in improving engineering efficiency by automating infrastructure, streamlining deployments, and building robust cloud platforms that support the full software development lifecycle.
What You'll Be Doing
- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment platforms.
- Develop and manage automated CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery.
- Build and operate shared platform services for deployment, monitoring, observability, and operational support.
- Create and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
- Deploy, manage, and optimise solutions across AWS, Azure, and private cloud environments.
- Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and delivery teams to improve automation, security, and platform reliability.
- Monitor system health, performance, and availability while proactively identifying opportunities for optimisation.
- Contribute to DevOps best practices, continuous improvement initiatives, and engineering standards.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for engineers who are passionate about automation, cloud technologies, and building resilient, secure platforms.
Essential Experience
- Commercial experience building, deploying, and supporting secure production systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation.
- Knowledge of containers, orchestration, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience working across the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Comfortable working in Agile environments using Scrum or Kanban.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
Desirable Skills
- Experience with one or more of the following technologies is beneficial: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Packer, Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Artifactory, Nexus Repository, Serverless architectures.
- Industry certifications across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or DevOps tooling are also welcomed but are not essential.
Why Join?
This is an opportunity to work on technically challenging projects that have a genuine impact while continuing to grow your career in a supportive engineering culture.
Benefits
- Hybrid and flexible working.
- Flexitime (37.5-hour working week).
- Learning and development budget for certifications, conferences, and training.
- Private healthcare.
- Matched pension contributions.
- Monthly socials and quarterly company events.
- Clear technical and career progression opportunities.
- Collaborative, inclusive culture that values innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
- Opportunity to contribute to projects supporting UK national security and public services.
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