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DevOps Engineer
Jacobs · Manchester, ENG, United Kingdom
Manchester, ENG, United KingdomHybrid
Remuneration
Well-being benefits, flexible working arrangements, and a global giving and volunteering program
Location
Manchester, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The DevOps Engineer designs, builds, automates, and optimises cloud-native platforms and delivery pipelines supporting critical digital services. The role focuses on secure and resilient AWS infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, cloud modernisation, and enabling client teams. The technology environment includes Terraform or AWS CDK, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, and monitoring tools such as Kibana, Grafana, and Dynatrace.
Benefits
Well-being benefitsGlobal giving and volunteering program
Qualifications
- Eligible for or currently holding SC Security Clearance.
- Experience delivering DevOps or platform engineering solutions in agile environments.
- Strong AWS experience, including cloud-native and serverless architectures.
- Experience with Terraform and/or AWS CDK.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and modern source control practices.
- Experience deploying and managing applications with Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker.
- Understanding of logging, monitoring, and observability practices.
- Experience designing secure, resilient, and highly available cloud environments.
- Working knowledge of networking, infrastructure, and cloud security.
- Experience supporting application deployments on Linux and cloud-hosted environments.
- Bash scripting and automation experience; Python and/or TypeScript are advantageous.
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Deliver digital services and cloud platforms within agile, multidisciplinary teams.
- Collaborate with clients, architects, developers, and technical stakeholders to address business and technical challenges.
- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
- Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment speed, reliability, and quality.
- Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting solutions.
- Support cloud adoption, platform modernisation, and migration of legacy workloads.
- Coach client teams in DevOps capabilities and best practices.
- Share knowledge, mentor colleagues, and contribute to continuous learning.
Skills
AWSBashAWS CDKCloudWatchDockerDynatraceGitGrafanaHelmJenkinsKibanaKubernetesAWS LambdaLinuxPythonSNSSQSTerraformTypeScript
Work schedule
Flexible working arrangements
Industry
National security and defense
Security clearance
SC Security Clearance
Relocation
No