DevOps Engineer

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design and improvement of CI/CD platforms and workflows
• Own complex technical problems from discovery through to solution
• Define and promote engineering standards and best practice
• Design Infrastructure as Code solutions for cloud and hybrid platforms
• Provide technical leadership within delivery teams
• Mentor and develop junior and mid-level engineers
• Review designs, code and pipelines
• Work closely with architects, product owners and stakeholders
• Communicate trade-offs and decisions clearly
• Contribute to roadmap planning and technical strategy

CI/CD and source control

Infrastructure as Code and development

Cloud platforms

Operating systems and platforms

Networking

Virtualisation and hardware

Leadership and behaviours

Ways of working

What we value

Benefits

• By joining us you can expect:
• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment.
• As well as this, we offer:
• Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
• Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
• Social – Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes
• Time off 25 days a year
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
• Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)

Qualifications

• Technical skills and experience
• CI/CD and source control
• Strong experience designing and running CI/CD pipelines
• Deep understanding of Git-based workflows
• Infrastructure as Code and development
• Terraform using HCL in production environments
• Python for automation and tooling
• Experience with other languages such as Bash, PowerShell or Go
• Cloud platforms
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• Working knowledge of multi-cloud or hybrid architectures
• Understanding of identity, networking and security in cloud platforms
• Operating systems and platforms
• Strong Linux experience
• Windows Server experience
• macOS familiarity for engineering workflows
• Networking
• DNS
• TCP/IP
• Load balancing
• Firewalls and routing
• Virtualisation and hardware
• VMware experience (vSphere, ESXi or similar)
• Understanding of physical infrastructure and data centre environments
• Leadership and behaviours
• Proven experience leading by influence, not title
• Ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly
• Comfortable challenging designs and assumptions
• Experience developing and mentoring engineers
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Able to balance delivery with longer-term improvement
• Ways of working
• Experience working in agile delivery environments
• Comfortable working across multiple teams or clients
• Pragmatic approach to tooling and architecture
• Focus on outcomes and reliability
• What we value
• Strong problem-solving and solutioning mindset
• Ownership and accountability
• Clear communication
• Technical curiosity and continuous improvement