Senior DevOps Engineer - Sovereign Cloud

What you'll bring

• You have proven expertise independently operating and scaling cloud-based platforms, with deep hands-on experience applying DevOps best practices end to end in production environments.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of cloud infrastructure, including AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, IAM, ACM, KMS, and VPC.
• Strong expertise in infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipeline design, scripting, and programming, with solid command of GIT, Linux, and SUSE.
• Proven ability to lead incident management, root cause analysis, and implement continuous service improvements in complex, high-availability environments.
• Experience in systems administration, database administration, and landscape maintenance across globally distributed cloud environments.
• Solid understanding of networking, virtualization, internet protocols, observability tooling, and security fundamentals for SaaS multitenant applications.
• Degree not required for this role.
• We also look for people who build trust naturally, communicate with clarity, keep the customer at the centre of what they do, and bring emotional intelligence and genuine problem-solving ability to the challenges they face.
• What you'll build
• You will take end-to-end ownership of cloud service operations across a globally distributed team, ensuring the highest standards of security, performance, and reliability.
• Provision, monitor, and operate cloud services, maintaining system health, availability, and scalability in a distributed environment.
• Analyse and resolve operational issues, lead incident response, and conduct root cause analysis to embed learnings into continuous service improvements.
• Design, build, and automate processes for deployment, testing, scalability, and observability of services.
• Develop and maintain policies and standards for computing resource allocation and cloud governance.
• Collaborate with product development teams to design and enhance services, and cross-train with global team members.
• Support on-call rotation, including flexibility for scheduled maintenance and after-hours work when needed.
• Due to the potentially classified nature of our work, you are required to subject yourself to a governmental security clearance process ( https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels ) and job offer and employment will be conditional on obtaining security clearance.