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# Senior DevOps Engineer - *MUST BE SC CLEARED*

- **Company:** Korn Ferry
- **Location:** Birmingham, United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £145,600 - £168,480
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Continuous Integration, DevOps, Release Management, Scripting, Integration Tests, Deployment Automation
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/gb/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-FB716E4CBC0FBE9914/

## About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a large-scale public sector technology environment.You will combine strong hands-on DevOps engineering with technical leadership, taking responsibility for the stability, availability and quality of services while helping drive automation and DevOps best practice across engineering teams., * Strong experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer/Lead DevOps Engineer within complex technology environments.

 * Previous public sector experience is essential.
 * Strong hands-on DevOps engineering and automation experience.
 * Strong CI/CD, release and deployment experience.
 * Experience designing and supporting build and integration processes.
 * Strong Scripting/coding capability for automation.
 * Experience implementing automated deployment and release processes.
 * Good understanding of service reliability, stability and availability.
 * Experience working across multiple interconnected services and the wider technical landscape.

## Description

* Lead and support a team of DevOps Engineers, providing technical guidance, coaching and mentoring.
 * Design, build, test and maintain complex automation and engineering solutions.
 * Define and coordinate integration builds and support integration testing activities.
 * Lead release and deployment planning, including risk assessment, scheduling, deployment and rollback.
 * Drive automation across build, release and deployment processes.
 * Develop reusable libraries, templates and services.
 * Improve the stability, availability and quality of production services.
 * Establish and promote modern DevOps engineering standards and best practices.