Devops Engineer

Overview

In this role you will design and build secure AWS cloud platforms to support high-profile UK Government and Defence projects. You will lead hands-on delivery within an Agile team, shaping infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and shared platform services.

You’ll mentor engineers, manage senior stakeholders, and guide AWS architecture decisions to ensure secure, scalable deployments. This is a technical leadership position focused on creating new infrastructure and platforms rather than just maintaining existing environments.

You join a fast-moving team that values impact, security, and cross-functional collaboration.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexitime – 37.5 hrs/week
• Learning budget
• Private healthcare
• Matched pension
• Monthly socials
• Quarterly company meetups

Responsibilities

• Design, build and manage secure AWS cloud infrastructure
• Create automated CI/CD pipelines
• Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Build and operate platforms for containerised applications
• Support software deployment, monitoring and operational performance
• Lead technical delivery throughout the full project lifecycle
• Advise customers on AWS architecture and technology choices
• Manage senior stakeholder relationships and key project deliverables
• Mentor engineers and support junior team members
• Promote Agile best practices, including Scrum and Kanban

Key requirements

• Strong commercial AWS experience
• Proven experience building new cloud infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automation and containerisation
• Experience with Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes
• Good understanding of AWS security principles and secure deployment practices
• Experience delivering within Agile teams
• Ability to lead technical solutions and take ownership of delivery
• Strong customer-facing and stakeholder-management skills
• Experience mentoring or supporting other engineers
• customer-facing
• stakeholder-management
• mentoring
• AWS
• Terraform
• Docker

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