DevOps Engineer

We are supporting a major programme within the UK Defence sector and are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to play a key role in the design, build and operation of secure, cloud-native platforms on AWS. Working within a highly skilled engineering environment, you will help drive DevOps best practice, automate infrastructure and deployment pipelines, and support the delivery of critical services in a complex and security-conscious setting. This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer who can combine strong technical capability with leadership, mentoring and stakeholder engagement skills., * Design, build and maintain scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.

• Develop and enhance Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Build, optimise and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable delivery.
• Champion DevOps culture, automation and engineering best practice across delivery teams.
• Improve platform resilience, observability, security and operational performance.
• Work closely with software engineers, architects and senior stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities.
• Support containerised workloads and cloud-native deployments.
• Lead technical discussions, provide guidance to engineers and contribute to strategic decisions around platform engineering.

• Extensive hands-on DevOps or Platform Engineering experience within complex enterprise or government environments.
• Strong AWS expertise across core services, networking, security and platform design.
• Proven experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
• Strong CI/CD experience using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or similar.
• Containerisation and orchestration experience, including Kubernetes and Docker.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash or similar.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability solutions.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience operating in secure or regulated environments.

Desirable Experience

• Previous Defence, MoD or National Security project experience.
• Experience with AWS EKS and modern platform engineering practices.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps principles and cloud security controls.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery environments.
• AWS certifications.