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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior DevOps Engineer - **Company:** Npa Worldwide - **Location:** Cheltenham, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £69,000.0 - £109,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Elasticsearch, Cisco Nexus Switches, Scrum Methodology, Systems Development Life Cycle, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Vault (Revision Control System), Private Cloud Environment, DevOps Tools - Open-source, System Availability, Grafana, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Gitlab, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform, Serverless Computing, Docker, Jenkins, Artifactory - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5836604868 ## About the Role * Commercial experience building, deploying, and supporting secure production systems. * Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure. * Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices. * Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation. * Knowledge of containers, orchestration, and cloud-native architectures. * Experience working across the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). * Comfortable working in Agile environments using Scrum or Kanban. * Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams. * Experience with one or more of the following technologies is beneficial: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Packer, Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Artifactory, Nexus Repository, serverless architectures. * Industry certifications across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or DevOps tooling are welcomed but not essential. ## Description * Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment platforms. * Develop and manage automated CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery. * Build and operate shared platform services for deployment, monitoring, observability, and operational support. * Create and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles. * Deploy, manage, and optimise solutions across AWS, Azure, and private cloud environments. * Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and delivery teams to improve automation, security, and platform reliability. * Monitor system health, performance, and availability while proactively identifying opportunities for optimisation. * Contribute to DevOps best practices, continuous improvement initiatives, and engineering standards. Technologies: * AWS * Azure * CI/CD * Cloud * DevOps * Docker * GitLab * Grafana * Support * Jenkins * Kanban * Kubernetes * Nexus * Prometheus * Security * Serverless * Terraform More: We are partnering with a growing, mission-led technology consultancy delivering secure, modern software solutions to the UK Government and Defence sector. You will join a collaborative engineering team working in small, high-performing agile teams to design, build, and support the cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment platforms behind high-impact digital services. This is a hybrid, flexible opportunity with a 37.5-hour working week, flexitime, private healthcare, matched pension contributions, monthly socials, quarterly company events, a learning and development budget, and clear technical and career progression. We offer a collaborative, inclusive culture that values innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement, with the opportunity to contribute to projects supporting UK national security and public services. 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