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# Senior Devops Engineer

- **Company:** CACI
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Application Performance Management, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Elasticsearch, Fault Tolerance, Cisco Nexus Switches, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Vault (Revision Control System), Enterprise Software Applications, System Availability, Grafana, Gitlab, Kubernetes, Terraform, Serverless Computing, Docker, Jenkins, Artifactory
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://eu.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/senior-devops-engineer-manchester-grossbritannien-58866461

## About the Role

Experteer Overview In this DevOps role, you will design, implement and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS and run Kubernetes-based deployments for a large, bespoke software solution. You'll work within an agile engineering team on a multi-team, government-focused programme, solving scalability, security and reliability challenges. You drive automation, monitoring and CI/CD processes while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to security and disaster recovery policies. This is a hands-on, impact-focused opportunity to shape mission-critical systems for national security and central government. Pay / Benefits * Design, implement and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure * Deploy, scale and manage Kubernetes clusters * Work with Docker and Helm * Develop automated tooling for building, deployment, monitoring, testing and maintenance * Develop and maintain security, compliance and disaster recovery policies * Optimise infrastructure for high availability, fault tolerance and cost
efficiency * Continuously monitor and improve infrastructure and application performance * Troubleshoot and resolve infra and app issues * Mentor junior DevOps engineers Tasks * DevOps-focused experience * Ability to contribute to new software product development * Experience with large-scale applications and cross-functional collaboration * Excellent communication and leadership skills * Exposure to Gitlab, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Packer, Vault, Serverless, Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Artifactory & Nexus Key requirements * up to 5 days external training * career coach * guilds to share innovation and learning * self-directed career progression * inclusive environment * Disability Confident employer

## Description

Experteer Overview In this DevOps role, you will design, implement and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS and run Kubernetes-based deployments for a large, bespoke software solution. You'll work within an agile engineering team on a multi-team, government-focused programme, solving scalability, security and reliability challenges. You drive automation, monitoring and CI/CD processes while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to security and disaster recovery policies. This is a hands-on, impact-focused opportunity to shape mission-critical systems for national security and central government. Pay / Benefits * Design, implement and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure * Deploy, scale and manage Kubernetes clusters * Work with Docker and Helm * Develop automated tooling for building, deployment, monitoring, testing and maintenance * Develop and maintain security, compliance and disaster recovery policies * Optimise infrastructure for high availability, fault tolerance and cost efficiency * Continuously monitor and improve infrastructure and application performance * Troubleshoot and resolve infra and app issues * Mentor junior DevOps engineers Tasks * DevOps-focused experience * Ability to contribute to new software product development * Experience with large-scale applications and cross-functional collaboration * Excellent communication and leadership skills * Exposure to Gitlab, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Packer, Vault, Serverless, Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Artifactory & Nexus Key requirements * up to 5 days external training * career coach * guilds to share innovation and learning * self-directed career progression * inclusive environment * Disability Confident employer


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