DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience supporting the Metropolitan Police mission. In this role you will support the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of cloud-based platforms and delivery pipelines. You will work closely with engineering and platform teams to automate infrastructure, enhance CI/CD processes, and maintain reliable, scalable environments.

Your Role and Primary Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and YAML configurations
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Deploy, manage, and support Azure services across IaaS and PaaS environments
• Automate routine operational and deployment tasks
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure, applications, and deployment pipelines
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications running in Kubernetes environments
• Use kubectl commands to manage deployments, pods, services, and namespaces
• Investigate issues using logs, exec, and describe commands
• Perform rollouts, restarts, and scaling activities
• Work with containerised applications (Docker or similar)
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve build, release, and deployment processes
• Contribute to platform stability, performance, and security
• Support technical documentation (runbooks, deployment guides)
• Contribute to well-structured release notes

Basic Qualifications

• Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role
• Strong Microsoft Azure experience
• CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins)
• Terraform experience
• YAML proficiency
• Kubernetes experience
• Strong use of kubectl commands
• Containerisation experience (Docker or similar)
• Scripting (PowerShell/Bash)
• Experience working with Jira in Agile environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Confluence experience
• Azure Monitor / Log Analytics experience
• Cloud security and governance understanding
• CI/CD best practices knowledge
• FinOps awareness
• Experience in enterprise or government environments

Pay Range

£61,500.00 - £78,800.00

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

• Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role
• Strong Microsoft Azure experience
• CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins)
• Terraform experience
• YAML proficiency
• Kubernetes experience
• Strong use of kubectl commands
• Containerisation experience (Docker or similar)
• Scripting (PowerShell/Bash)
• Experience working with Jira in Agile environments, * Confluence experience
• Azure Monitor / Log Analytics experience
• Cloud security and governance understanding
• CI/CD best practices knowledge
• FinOps awareness
• Experience in enterprise or government environments