Senior DevOps Engineer
SF Partners
Manchester, United Kingdom
3 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 110KJob location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Automation of Tests
Cloud Computing
Cloud Engineering
Continuous Integration
DevOps
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Red Hat Enterprise Linux - RHEL
Ansible
Prometheus
Enterprise Software Applications
Grafana
Database Performance
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Deployment Automation
Terraform
Vulnerability Analysis
Job description
- We will work within a highly skilled, multi-disciplinary technical team.
- We will deliver best-in-class, high-traffic enterprise applications with international significance.
- We will design, build, and operate enterprise Kubernetes platforms.
- We will create secure AWS landing zones and scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure.
- We will apply cloud-native best practices across platform development.
- We will take a lead role in future platform development.
- We will provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching through delivery excellence.
Technologies:
- AWS
- Ansible
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Grafana
- Kubernetes
- MongoDB
- OpenTelemetry
- PostgreSQL
- Prometheus
- Security
- Terraform
- Marketing
Requirements
- We are looking for a senior or lead DevOps or Platform Engineer with a platform-as-a-service mindset.
- We need strong experience building and owning enterprise developer platforms, ideally supporting 100+ developers.
- We want deep technical ownership of internal developer platforms for a large user base.
- We require knowledge of cloud-native system design.
- We need experience designing and supporting AWS landing zones.
- We want observability stack exposure, including Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
- We require infrastructure-as-code experience with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Red Hat technologies.
- We need strong experience building and owning multiple Kubernetes clusters, including AKS and EKS.
- We value database performance management experience with technologies such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
- We require expertise in designing and maintaining enterprise CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing, security scanning, infrastructure provisioning, and deployment strategies.
- We want proven leadership, mentorship, and the ability to inspire and coach through technical delivery excellence.
Benefits & conditions
We are a market-leading innovation house with offices in Manchester and Leeds. We offer a dynamic, engaging, R&D-driven culture with extensive progression opportunities, a clear progression pathway, and the chance to play a lead role in future platform development. The role comes with long-term hybrid working, requiring six days a month on-site, along with a generous private pension scheme, death in service and income protection, private healthcare, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and bi-annual salary reviews. We are looking for someone to join us in the North and help shape one of the largest and most complex platforms in the UK.