Senior DevOps Engineer - SC Cleared

In this Lead DevOps Engineer role, you design, implement and optimise secure, scalable infrastructure and automated delivery pipelines for critical government programmes. You’ll provide technical leadership, mentor engineers and drive DevOps best practices across cloud, containerisation and automation initiatives. The position offers collaboration with cross-functional teams, opportunities to adopt emerging technologies and to influence technical direction. Your work will enhance performance, reliability and security, shaping solutions that matter at scale.

• competitive salary
• excellent pension
• private healthcare
• share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching)
• opportunity to be CGI Partner
• career development support

• Provide technical leadership across DevOps initiatives and mentor engineers
• Architect, build and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure across cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Design, implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Bamboo)
• Develop and manage containerised environments with Docker and Kubernetes
• Create automation solutions using Python, Bash or PowerShell
• Embed security, resilience and reliability into engineering processes
• Collaborate with technical teams and stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions
• Produce technical designs and documentation to enable knowledge sharing

• Minimum 5 years of professional DevOps experience
• Proven experience leading DevOps teams and mentoring juniors
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Expertise designing and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Bamboo)
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes
• Scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash or PowerShell)
• Experience producing technical designs and documentation
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Proactive problem-solving, learning and innovation attitude

• leadership
• collaboration
• curiosity
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD