Job Vacancy Senior DevOps - Home Office - G7

Working pattern 

This role is available on a full-time basis with the option of  working.  This role is also suitable for  working hours, with a minimum requirement to work 3 days per week due to business requirements.    

Main responsibilities 

• Supporting teams in mapping their stories to available platforms, ensuring effective and secure service deployment.

• Developing and maintaining hardened base containers, undertaking skilled platform build and support activities.

• Identifying gaps in best practices, advising teams on delivery risks and recommending improvements.

• Assisting engineers with service topology discovery, helping define quality assurance (QA) and deployment pipelines.

• Driving adoption of new tools and technologies, improving teams’ integration approaches.

• Developing and enhance support processes, ensuring better user experience and operational efficiency.

Essential skills 

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for DevOps culture, with the following skills or strong experience in:

• Leading the design, implementation, and review of complex cloud solutions using AWS, ensuring alignment with best practices for architecture and scalability. (SWDN)

• Driving the implementation of automated testing, scanning, and code analysis tooling, and providing guidance on best practices to ensure continuous integration and code quality.  (TEST)

• Identifying and enforcing the use of processes, procedures, and tooling for application monitoring, ongoing maintenance, and incident response to ensure high availability and performance.  (ASUP)

• Devising and leading the implementation of data management processes and standards for cloud resources, covering areas like naming, tagging, metadata management, backups, and documentation for compliance and efficiency. (DATM)

• Designing, coding, testing, maintaining, and documenting scripts and infrastructure-as-code definitions to automate build, deployment, and provisioning activities, enhancing operational workflows. (PROG)

• Specifying and leading the implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring alignment with best practices to facilitate automated and efficient deployment cycles.  (SINT)

Croydon, Manchester, Sheffield

The Senior DevOps Engineer ensures service reliability and performance by maintaining, designing, and building key components in line with standards, ensuring security and effective monitoring. Collaborating with architects and teams, they clarify design constraints, workforce needs, and cost implications during discovery phases.

They provide guidance on CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, enabling effic