Senior DevOps Engineer

In this role within PA Consulting’s Digital & Data team, you will drive cloud-native and scalable solutions for diverse client projects. You’ll collaborate across product, design, and engineering to accelerate innovation using agile practices. You’ll balance hands-on delivery with architectural guidance, mentoring, and client engagement to shape robust, high-performing services. This is a technically diverse, hybrid role with a focus on impact across multiple sectors.

• Private healthcare for you and family
• 25 days annual leave (+ 0.5 day Christmas Eve)
• Generous pension scheme
• Annual performance bonus
• PA share ownership
• Cycle to work/tax-efficient benefits

• Lead architecture and implement DevOps patterns across pods or teams
• Maintain regular client engagement and act as a primary liaison between client and project
• Coach and mentor team members to improve practices
• Contribute to bids and proposals and assist in client presentations
• Support account management and consulting activities
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and automation
• Implement microservices, containers, and cloud-native solutions
• Develop logging, monitoring, and alerting strategies
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and security considerations in the cloud
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams on agile projects
• Contribute to internal projects and knowledge sharing on best practices

• 8-10 years of DevOps experience
• Architectural expertise and knowledge of development processes
• Strong collaboration with multiple stakeholders in fast-paced environments
• Proven coaching and mentoring ability
• Experience shaping bids/proposals and presenting to clients
• Consulting skills and account management familiarity
• Eligibility for UK security clearance (or ability to obtain)

• problem-solving orientation
• analytical thinking
• stakeholder management
• AWS, Azure or GCP
• CI/CD pipelines and build automation tools
• Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift