DevOps Engineer

My client is supporting its public body on large-scale, mission-critical digital services. We're looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer to strengthen delivery, reliability and security across cloud-native platforms and CI/CD pipelines. Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines (build, test, deploy, release automation).
• Implement IaC for repeatable, secure environments (prod/non-prod).
• Operate and optimise Kubernetes/Docker-based services (scalability, reliability, cost).
• Improve observability (logging, metrics, tracing), SRE practices and incident response.
• Embed DevSecOps: secrets management, policy-as-code, vulnerability remediation.
• Collaborate with developers, architects and security on delivery best practices.
• Produce documentation/runbooks; contribute to standards and governance.

Must-Have Skills

• Cloud: AWS (core services, networking, IAM, cost-aware design).
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
• IaC: Terraform (modules, workspaces, state management), Ansible.
• CI/CD: GitLab CI or similar (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps), artifact/versioning.
• Scripting: Bash and/or Python for automation.
• OS & Networking: Linux, DNS, VPC/Subnets, Security Groups, load balancers.
• Observability: Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Opensearch, CloudWatch.
• Security: Secrets management (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager/HashiCorp Vault), vulnerability scanning (Snyk/Trivy), policy-as-code (OPA/Conftest).

Nice-to-Have

• GitOps (Argo CD / Flux) and Helm charts.
• Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) or advanced networking policies.
• Compliance in UK public sector (NCSC cloud principles), Well-Architected.
• Experience on large government programmes.

Deliverables

• Stable, secure CI/CD pipelines and IaC baselines.
• Kubernetes platform improvements (scaling, reliability, cost).
• Observability dashboards and actionable alerts.
• Runbooks and documentation for operations and incident management.

• Pragmatic, delivery-focused engineer with strong collaboration skills.
• Comfortable balancing speed, security and governance in public sector contexts.
• Clear communicator; able to document and propose improvements.