Senior DevOps Engineer

Hayward Hawk
Magherafelt, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Remote
Magherafelt, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Computing Platforms
Azure
Cloud Computing
Configuration Management
Computer Programming
DevOps
Python
Open Source Technology
Ansible
Pulumi
Kubernetes
Puppet
Terraform
Microservices

Job description

I'm looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer, with focus on Terraform for a client of ours. Im working with a well-established technology business operating in a highly regulated environment, looking to hire a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their CloudOps function. This role sits at the centre of platform reliability, automation, and cloud infrastructure, partnering closely with engineering teams to ensure secure, scalable, and compliant systems. This is a hands-on senior role with clear technical ownership, alongside mentoring responsibilities and influence over infrastructure standards and tooling.

The Role Youll be responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud-native infrastructure that supports a modern, containerised application platform. The role combines deep technical delivery with leadership, documentation, and cross-team collaboration.

Requirements

Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi Hands-on experience running container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes Strong cloud background in AWS or Azure Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines Configuration management experience (Chef, Puppet, or similar) Strong scripting or programming skills (Python, Go, or similar) Experience with observability and monitoring platforms Solid understanding of microservices architectures Strong security awareness and experience working in regulated environments Excellent communication and documentation skills Comfortable working with distributed teams and asynchronous tooling

Nice to Have Experience with internal developer platforms or platform engineering models Exposure to GitOps tooling Policy-as-code experience Cloud cost optimisation or FinOps exposure Open-source DevOps contributions Experience managing container image pipelines and artefact repositories This role would suit a senior DevOps professional who enjoys technical ownership, architecture-level impact, and working in environments where quality, resilience, and security genuinely matter.

Skills: DevOps Terraform

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