Senior DevOps Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will shape cloud platforms and engineering practices to enable secure, reliable, and scalable software delivery. You will partner with Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to drive improvements across AWS, CI/CD, IaC, and observability. You will provide technical direction, mentor peers, and help define platform standards while ensuring security/compliance. This role offers impact across multi-account environments and a path to lead transformational DevOps initiatives.

• Holiday purchase scheme
• On-site gym
• Online benefits portal
• Contributory pension
• Progression and Development
• Private medical insurance

• Lead design and improvement of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, AWS deployment services, Flux and Argo CD
• Build and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and, where appropriate, CloudFormation
• Design and operate secure, scalable AWS environments across development, staging and production
• Manage containerised platforms using Docker, Kubernetes and Amazon EKS
• Improve monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana and Dynatrace
• Embed security, compliance and policy controls into CI/CD pipelines and runtime environments
• Develop reliability practices covering SLOs, SLIs, incident response, root cause analysis and post-incident improvements
• Support backup, disaster recovery and business continuity planning and testing
• Manage secrets, configuration and encryption using AWS Secrets Manager, Systems Manager Parameter Store and KMS
• Improve cloud cost, capacity and performance through FinOps and architecture improvements
• Work with engineering teams to improve release quality, deployment frequency and operational resilience
• Participate in the production support rota, currently one week in every six
• Deployment automation and release governance across multi-account AWS environments
• Platform observability and the quality of operational alerts
• Vulnerability management, security controls and compliance automation
• System performance, scalability and resilience testing
• Developer productivity through reusable tooling, templates and self-service capabilities

• Hands-on AWS experience with EC2, ECS or EKS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, KMS and CloudWatch
• CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Flux or Argo CD
• Infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform
• Docker and Kubernetes, ideally including Amazon EKS
• Secure AWS landing zones and multi-account environments
• GitOps principles and modern deployment approaches (blue-green, canary, rolling)
• Scripting and automation with Bash, Python or PowerShell
• DevSecOps, cloud security controls and policy as code
• Troubleshooting, incident management and root cause analysis
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement
• Agile software engineering environments

• Collaborative
• Problem-solving
• Stakeholder management
• AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, KMS, CloudWatch)
• GitHub Actions
• Azure DevOps