DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer (Defence)

UK Wide – London, Manchester, Leeds, Gloucester (Hybrid)

£45,000 – £60,000 + package

Working with a leading cyber and defence organisation delivering secure, cloud-native platforms across national security and government environments. They’re looking for DevOps Engineers to build, automate and scale critical infrastructure supporting high-impact programmes.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, build and manage cloud infrastructure across Azure or GCP
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery
• Support containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Develop automation scripts (Python, Bash, Shell)
• Work within cross-functional DevOps / SRE teams to improve system reliability and scalability
• Apply DevOps best practices across monitoring, logging and deployment

What they’re looking for

• 2+ years experience in DevOps / Platform Engineering
• Hands-on with: Azure or GCP, Terraform (or similar IaC tools) and CI/CD tooling
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash or similar)
• Solid understanding of Linux, networking and cloud architecture
• Experience working in Agile environments
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)

Package

• £45,000 – £60,000 base
• Bonus + strong benefits package
• Hybrid working across multiple UK locations

Get in touch with Connor Smyth at Anson McCade to hear more.