DevOps Engineer

Hippo Digital is recruiting for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our growing consultancy. This is a pivotal role within our Engineering function, leading the charge in delivering value and driving automation for our diverse Public and Private Sector clients. You will work alongside like-minded, talented engineers, shaping robust, cloud-native systems that our customers can rely on.

Hippo's Senior Engineers are experts in their field. You will act as a Senior Consultant, providing technical expertise both internally and to our clients. You will support technical deliverables, maintain client relationships, and be passionate about developing yourself and others.

Our solutions empower our customers to build and support secure, scalable, and well-engineered systems. We leverage deep data insights and continuous innovation to deliver awesome platforms that allow our customers to get the most from their digital services. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be a key architect and implementer in this mission.

Please note we are looking for candidates who are looking for growth at the Senior level; therefore, the advertised salary band represents the entry point for this level, allowing for clear progression within the role.

Your Role in a Nutshell

• Demonstrate technical expertise within the Hippo engineering community to ensure user-centred, automated infrastructure is developed based on business requirements and best practices.
• Champion Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation in every aspect of the solution, ensuring repeatable and reliable deployments.
• Operate in a hands-on environment, working with various AWS services, platforms, and frameworks.
• Coach and encourage the maintenance of standards in AWS architecture, CI/CD, testing, and platform support.
• Share knowledge with the wider technical community, lead in the recruitment of other engineers, and support consultants in their professional development.
• Ensure Hippo's DevOps and Engineering communities contribute to the business at a strategic level.

• Expert proficiency with AWS cloud services (including EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, and IAM) for seamless integration and deployment.
• Excellent experience in designing and maintaining robust pipelines, specifically using GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions, including debugging complex pipeline issues.
• Strong experience in the deployment and management of containerised applications using Amazon EKS (Kubernetes) and the Kubectl CLI.
• Extensive experience utilising Terraform.
• Experience integrating and orchestrating testing tools (such as PyTest or Selenium) within automated pipelines to ensure code quality.
• Deep experience with Docker for containerisation, image optimization, and application packaging.
• Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions, specifically using Prometheus, Grafana, or AWS CloudWatch.
• Experience implementing robust security practices, including AWS Secrets Manager, encryption (KMS/TLS), and Identity & Access Management (IAM).

As well as a competitive salary which we're transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:

• private health cover
• private dental cover
• additional company pension contributions
• additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
• wellbeing contribution
• charity contributions
• tree planting

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo

At Hippo, we're dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.

We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.

At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes. We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world. Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do. If you're looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact. Hippo locations We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices which will be your contracted office location. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on-site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open/flexible to travel. Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.