Senior Devops Engineer - Cloud Solutions

Location: Birmingham, Leeds, London, Manchester, Peterborough, Reading, Slough, United Kingdom

Job Family: Digital & Technology

Job Type: Full Time

Posted Date: 04-Jun-2025

Ref #: 61289

Salary: up to c£80,000 + 15% Bonus + 10% matched pension + 26 days holiday + broadband/media package

We have a couple of brand-new opportunities for Senior Cloud DevOps Engineers to join our technology and transformation team focused on building and supporting our cloud platforms. These roles will play a key role in shaping the future of our OSS systems and processes. As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for taking a lead on projects and mentoring engineers. The team is working on migrating applications to the cloud and these are key roles to deliver the automation of Cloud Infrastructure services.

Technology stack and focus are GCP services with a serverless focus first, GitLab, and Terraform. We are a data-driven department, and our primary cloud is GCP. You will get the opportunity to join a high-performing team that this year won the Google Cloud x Formula E AI Hackathon out of 200 industry-leading teams.

• Collaborate with different teams to improve the integration and release process.
• Standardise and simplify the CI/CD practices with governance and security.
• Develop, maintain, and optimise the CI/CD pipelines.
• Build monitoring tools and dashboards to track infrastructure and application performance.

Who we are: The UK’s fastest broadband network. The nation’s best-loved mobile brand. And, one of the UK's biggest companies too. Diverse, high-performing teams - jam-packed with serious talent. Together, we offer the UK more choice and better value, through our boundary-pushing, customer-championing values and ambitions. Together, we are Virgin Media O2, and we can't wait to see what you can do.

Accessible, inclusive and equitable for all. Virgin Media O2 is an equal opportunities employer and we’re working hard to remove bias and barriers for our people and candidates. So, we build equity and inclusion into everything we do, from the policies we craft to the relationships we shape. We support and encourage you to be your authentic self throughout your application journey with us.

• Solid experience in Python programming.
• In-depth, hands-on experience building platforms at scale for containerised workloads.
• Developing and maintaining continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines to allow for safe and quick code deployment.
• Utilising Kubernetes, including cluster provisioning, operations, workload optimisation, custom controllers/operators, workflow orchestration, logging monitoring, security, and troubleshooting.
• Automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes using tools such as Terraform.

• Implements security practices as directed and integrates security tools into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Solves routine problems with existing systems and tools.
• Implement best practices for Kubernetes setup, configuration, and architecture.
• Experienced in DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, Nexus or equivalent CI/CD tools.
• Experienced in using Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring.
• Experienced in cluster deployments using automation.

What’s in it for you: Our goal is to celebrate our people, their lives and everything in-between. We aim to create a culture that empowers everyone to bring the best versions of themselves to work each and every day. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a brighter world. Working at Virgin Media O2, you get a bumper reward package bursting with benefits, and loads of extras you can add if you’d like to. These are designed to support both you and your loved ones, making sure that you’re covered no matter what life throws your way.

Next steps: If we feel like a place where you can belong, we’d love to learn more about you as a person and your experience to date. Once you’ve submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a competency-based interview. When you apply, you’ll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we’ll be sure to discuss it with you.

Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert, therefore we may bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as possible. If you’re offered a job with us, it will be conditional, based on the passing of background checks. All roles require a criminal record check and some roles need a financial probity check. Your recruiter can provide you with more information if needed.

Thanks for your patience and for showing an interest in joining the Virgin Media O2 family.