DevOps Engineer

Job summary

Seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing project team in Central London. This role involves technical ownership of cloud and on-premises infrastructure, providing leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, and driving the architecture and evolution of a critical customer platform. The successful candidate will act as a senior technical authority, collaborating with customers and stakeholders to shape infrastructure strategy and ensure operational excellence. This role includes participation in an out-of-hours support rota for the production environment.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on expertise across AWS and Microsoft Azure platforms, including architecture, cost management, and security best practices.
• Proven experience designing and operating hybrid cloud environments with on-premises and VMware.
• Expert-level knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, including production-grade cluster management.
• Extensive experience architecting and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• Advanced use of GitLab, including branching strategies and pipeline integration.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Go, and/or Bash; ability to write maintainable, production-quality code.
• Deep system-level understanding of GNU/Linux, including performance tuning and hardening.
• Proficiency in Windows Server 2016+ including ADFS, ADCS, and ADDS.
• Strong understanding of IP networking, physical network topology, and network security.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Prometheus, Kibana, Nagios, or Splunk.
• Familiarity with backup and recovery platforms such as CommVault.
• Experience working in security-cleared or regulated environments (SC/DV).
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, CKA, Azure DevOps Expert).
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts clearly.
• Experience contributing to or leading incident management and post-incident review processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, and continuous improvement of infrastructure solutions, setting technical direction for the team.
• Own cloud and on-premises environments end-to-end, ensuring security, resilience, and performance.
• Mentor and support junior DevOps engineers, conducting code and infrastructure reviews.
• Drive platform automation initiatives to reduce manual toil and improve deployment pipelines.
• Act as an escalation point for complex operational incidents, leading root cause analysis and remediation.
• Collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to define infrastructure requirements and present technical solutions.
• Participate in the scheduled out-of-hours production support rota.
• Travel to data centres and offices as required (approximately 3–4 times per month).

Skills

Certifications

Work schedule

Travel

Security clearance

Relocation