Senior / Principal Consultant – DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated testing and deployment.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Manage and optimise cloud-based environments delivering solutions on AWS and Azure to support secure, scalable, and resilient services.
• Administer and support Red Hat / Linux platforms, including patching, configuration, and secure baselining.
• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting using tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar to ensure platform reliability and performance, including defining and tracking SLIs/SLOs and supporting incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Work with development teams to improve build, release and deployment processes.
• Manage containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment tooling, ingress and scaling.
• Maintain secure infrastructure and ensure compliance with security and governance standards, including IAM/least privilege, secrets management, secure CI/CD practices and policy controls.
• Identify opportunities to improve cost, performance and reliability (FinOps-aware), and help clients understand key cost drivers and trade-offs.
• Troubleshoot issues across environments including development, staging and production.
• Contribute to client-ready documentation including architecture decision records (ADRs), operational runbooks, as-built documentation and handover packs.
• Promote DevOps culture including collaboration, automation and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Experience working in a client-facing delivery environment, able to communicate technical concepts clearly and manage stakeholders.
• Experience working in a DevOps, Platform Engineering or Site Reliability role.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Hands-on experience delivering on AWS and Azure, including core services for networking, compute, storage, identity and logging.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform, ARM, Bicep, CloudFormation).
• Experience administering and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux or similar.
• Knowledge of containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with scripting or programming (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git.
• Experience supporting production systems, including incident response, problem management and reliability improvements using SLIs/SLOs.
• Experience implementing observability solutions (logging, metrics and ideally tracing) and turning telemetry into actionable alerting and dashboards.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Docker
• Grafana
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Prometheus
• Python
• Terraform

Benefits

• Private healthcare/medical cover & Group life insurance
• Annual bonus scheme (dependent on personal and company performance)
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing by 1 day per each calendar year, after your 3rd anniversary with the company– rising to a maximum of 30 days + bank holidays).
• Enhanced Reservist Leave – up to 10 days paid.
• Annual leave purchase scheme (up to 5 days per year)
• 5% company pension contribution
• £250.00 annual donation towards a charity or grassroots organisation of your choice
• Personal wellness benefit of £120.00 per month, access to unlimited 1-1 counselling support and a wealth of wellbeing and support resources
• Enhanced parental leave
• Electric car leasing salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work scheme (save 25-39% on a bike and accessories)
• Paid qualifications for employees at all levels
• Internal Employee Networks, regular social events throughout the year and charity fundraising activities to get involved with if you wish.