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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Ocho People
- **Location:** Belfast, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £80,000.0 - £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, Datadog, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, SC Clearance, Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5870677588

## About the Role

* At least five years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or systems engineering role.
 * Strong, hands-on Kubernetes experience including cluster management, networking, and production troubleshooting.
 * Experience working in or supporting air-gapped or disconnected environments.
 * Infrastructure as code experience using Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent.
 * Solid scripting ability in Python, Bash, or similar.
 * Experience with CI/CD tooling and deployment pipelines in security-conscious environments.
 * Eligibility to obtain UK SC clearance (residency and nationality requirements apply).

Desirable

 * Experience with container registries, image signing, and supply chain security in air-gapped contexts.
 * Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) alongside on-premise or edge deployments.
 * Experience in regulated, high-assurance, or government environments.
 * Observability tooling experience such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.

## Description

This is a hands-on platform engineering role for someone who wants real ownership. You will work across connected and disconnected environments, with a particular focus on Kubernetes and secure-by-design infrastructure. If you want to do meaningful work on infrastructure that genuinely matters, this is the role.

What you will own

 * Deploy and maintain Kubernetes clusters across connected and air-gapped environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.
 * Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines designed to function in constrained and disconnected environments.
 * Own infrastructure as code across the estate, keeping environments reproducible, auditable, and well documented.
 * Monitor and improve platform reliability, identifying and resolving issues before they become incidents.
 * Contribute to security hardening, access controls, and compliance evidence across the infrastructure estate.
 * Work closely with engineering teams to support deployments into regulated and high-assurance environments.
 * Support the broader team with tooling, automation, and platform guidance.


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