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# Senior DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Insight
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £62,686.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Audit Trail, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Github, Identity and Access Management, OpenShift, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, SSL Certificate Management, Scripting, Google Cloud, Istio, Grafana, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Git, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Hashicorp, Terraform, Software Version Control, Dynatrace, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5926137522

## About the Role

Hands-on Kubernetes engineering experience; GKE preferred, OpenShift required.

 - Strong background in Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, and reusable infrastructure automation.
 - Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools (Harness, Jenkins) and modern delivery engineering.
 - Familiarity with Backstage and developer self-service/golden path concepts.
 - Expertise in observability tools (Dynatrace), monitoring, alerting, and SRE practices.
 - Solid understanding of security (HashiCorp Vault, IAM, certificate management, platform controls).
 - Networking experience, especially with Istio Service Mesh and service/traffic management.
 - Proficiency in GitHub/Git, scripting, automation, troubleshooting, and production support.

## Description

Develop reusable platform services and internal developer self-service capabilities using Backstage and Internal Developer Platform patterns.

 - Create secure, repeatable cloud environments and reusable modules leveraging Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
 - Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines utilizing Harness and Jenkins; manage source control and collaboration via GitHub/Git.
 - Implement end-to-end observability with Dynatrace, including the setup of metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and service health monitoring.
 - Define and track SLI/SLOs; automate operational runbooks, incident remediation, and repeatable support tasks to minimize manual effort.
 - Engineer secure service-to-service connectivity using Istio Service Mesh; manage traffic, ingress/egress, and enforce policies.
 - Manage secrets, certificates, and workload identities securely using HashiCorp Vault and automated certificate lifecycle management.
 - Embed platform controls and security, including least-privilege access, secure configurations, resilience, and auditability in engineering processes.
 - Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, architecture, security, and operations); coach team members and promote best platform practices and standards.