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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Kent Fire & Rescue Service
- **Location:** Maidstone, UK
- **Salary:** £44,575.0 - £50,423.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, DevOps, System Center Configuration Manager, Software Engineering, Microsoft InTune, Deployment Automation, Software Version Control
- **Published:** October 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/job/gb02acb703d0a88f84c15d76cc9baeff0f/eaa

## About the Role

* Relevant technical qualification, professional qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience in IT, software engineering, infrastructure or a related discipline

 * Relevant DevOps, cloud, automation or engineering certification. - Desirable

 * IT service management or change-management qualification or demonstrable equivalent knowledge. - Desirable

 * Experience identifying manual or repetitive work and replacing or simplifying it through technology or process improvement.

 * Experience implementing technical changes in a controlled production environment.

 * Experience supporting or maintaining automation after implementation, including handling failures and operational exceptions.

 * Experience delivering automation across endpoint, infrastructure or cloud-management platforms. - Desirable

 * Experience working with Intune, MECM, Azure, Microsoft 365 or similar enterprise technology platforms - Desirable

## Description

The DevOps Engineer will improve efficiency, reliability and consistency of IT delivery operations through automation, modern engineering practices, improved tooling and effective collaboration. You will work in a mixed technology environment and will need to work pragmatically across existing platforms, processes and teams.
The successful candidate as DevOps Engineer will distinguish improvements that can be standardised and those where a different approach is justified. You will influence colleagues through technical credibility, collaboration and coaching.
What you'll do

 * Identify, prioritise and deliver opportunities to automate manual, repetitive or error-prone IT processes, with a focus on measurable reduction in operational effort

 * Design, implement and maintain automation, scripting, pipelines, tooling and engineering practices that improve reliability, repeatability and efficiency

 * Support adoption of modern DevOps and engineering practices, including source control, automated testing, deployment automation, configuration management, monitoring and repeatable release processes where appropriate

 * Ensure automation and engineering changes comply with relevant security, architecture, change, service management and operational controls

 * Produce clear documentation and operational ownership for automation and tooling, including monitoring, failure handling, support arrangements and knowledge transfer

What you'll bring

 * Demonstrable experience of using automation or scripting to improve technology operations or software delivery.