Role: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Reading or Leeds (Hybrid 1 day per week onsite)
Salary: £80k - £85k
Active SC Clearance required
We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing team delivering fully automated, continuous deployment solutions. You will play a key role in building, maintaining, and improving infrastructure and deployment pipelines, while collaborating across development, QA, and operations teams.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a modern, cloud-based environment using industry-leading tools and practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement automated build and deployment pipelines for Java-based microservices
- Contribute to version-controlled configuration assets within a fully automated CI/CD environment
- Diagnose and troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues
- Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to deliver reliable software services
- Act as a key liaison between management, technical teams, and operations
- Identify and implement automation opportunities that drive business value
- Support large-scale CI/CD and source code management implementations
- Monitor project progress and provide technical guidance where required
- Build strong working relationships with internal teams and third-party suppliers
- Work within an Agile delivery environment
- Create and maintain lightweight technical documentation
- Mentor and support junior team members
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools and practices (Jenkins, Git/GitLab)
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Proven experience building automation frameworks using Ansible
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, including:
- EC2, S3, Lambda
- EKS (Kubernetes)
- API Gateway, ALB
- Auto Scaling
- Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and security hardening
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Kubernetes, preferably EKS)
- Strong scripting/programming skills (e.g., Python, Groovy, Shell, Perl)
- Knowledge of Git branching strategies and source control management
- Experience with automated testing tools (e.g., Cucumber, ReadyAPI)
- Experience managing and scaling distributed systems in AWS environments
- Familiarity with deployment strategies and release management approaches
- Understanding of development concepts (REST APIs, JSON, YAML)
- Experience integrating quality gates (e.g., SonarQube, regression testing) into pipelines
Desirable Skills
- Experience with Jira or similar issue tracking tools
- Knowledge of HashiCorp Packer (AMI creation) and Vault (secrets management)
- Familiarity with messaging systems (IBM MQ, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Elastic Stack, AppDynamics)
