DevOps Engineer
Newcastle/Leeds/Manchester
£60,000 - £75,000
Active SC clearance required
About the Role
We're looking for a talented DevOps / Platform Engineer to join a growing engineering team delivering secure, cloud-native solutions for major UK organisations. This is an excellent opportunity to work across modern cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, CI/CD tooling, and platform engineering practices while collaborating closely with software engineers, architects, and technical stakeholders.
You'll play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines that support business-critical applications. This position offers exposure to a wide range of technologies, ongoing learning opportunities, and the chance to contribute to technical improvement initiatives across multiple projects.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain and improve cloud infrastructure platforms.
- Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines to support software delivery.
- Automate operational and infrastructure management tasks.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code solutions using modern tooling.
- Support production environments, ensuring reliability, availability and performance.
- Collaborate with developers and architects to improve platform capabilities.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment and cloud-related issues.
- Contribute to operational best practices, security standards and platform improvements.
- Support and mentor junior team members where appropriate.
Requirements
- Active SC Clearance.
- Commercial experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering or Cloud Engineering role.
- Experience working with AWS cloud services.
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of source control and automation tools such as GitHub and Jenkins.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash or PowerShell.
- Ability to work collaboratively within Agile delivery teams.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
What's on Offer
- Salary between £60,000 and £75,000.
- Hybrid working model.
- Annual bonus opportunity.
- Company pension scheme.
- Private healthcare.
- Ongoing training and certification support.
- Career progression opportunities within a growing technology function.
- Collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous learning and improvement.
All applicants need to hold an Active SC clearance.
