Senior Devops Engineer in Nationwide

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to support a high-profile government programme. This role requires strong hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and modern DevOps practices, working within a secure and highly regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines and delivery automation solutions

• Manage and optimise Git-based source control workflows across engineering teams

• Operate and support production systems on AWS

• Implement and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Develop automation and tooling using Python to improve operational efficiency

• Support live services including incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis

• Work closely with engineering teams to improve deployment reliability and developer experience

• Apply a structured, evidence-led approach to diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues

• Strong hands-on experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering roles

• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)

• Strong knowledge of Git-based workflows and source control best practices

• Commercial experience operating workloads in AWS ( cloud provider)

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)

• Strong proficiency in Python for automation and tooling

• Experience supporting production-grade cloud environments

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills with a structured approach

Desirable Experience

• Experience within government or highly regulated environments

• Containerisation and orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Observability tools (logging, monitoring, alerting, tracing)

• Improving developer experience and platform reliability at scale