Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Role: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Manchester (Client Travel Required)
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits Package
Drive the Platform Engineering Behind Some of the UK's Most Exciting Digital Products
We're partnering with a global technology consultancy that delivers large-scale digital transformation programmes for some of the world's most recognised organisations.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, building and supporting modern cloud-native platforms that power business-critical applications used by millions of users. This is an opportunity to combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, helping teams deliver secure, scalable and highly resilient solutions across a variety of industries.
Whether you're passionate about cloud engineering, DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering, observability or automation, you'll be given the freedom and support to work with cutting-edge technologies while continuing to develop your expertise.
Why Join This Team?
- Work on large-scale cloud and platform engineering projects
- Exposure to modern DevSecOps, SRE and AI-assisted engineering practices
- Access to industry-leading training and certifications
- Join a thriving engineering community of over 1,000 specialists
- Opportunity to mentor and influence engineering teams
- Work across multiple sectors, technologies and client environments
- Private medical insurance
- 25 days annual leave plus additional volunteering days
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Clear progression and long-term career development opportunities
What You'll Be Doing
- Building and supporting cloud-native platforms across AWS and Azure environments
- Designing secure, scalable and automated infrastructure solutions
- Implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Driving DevSecOps best practices across engineering teams
- Supporting production environments and resolving complex platform issues
- Applying SRE principles to improve resilience, reliability and performance
- Implementing observability solutions including monitoring, metrics, logging and alerting
- Supporting incident management and post-incident improvement activities
- Leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools to enhance delivery and productivity
- Mentoring junior engineers and supporting technical excellence across teams
What We're Looking For
- Strong experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
- Hands-on DevSecOps or Platform Engineering experience
- Advanced Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise
- Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles including SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana or similar
- Experience supporting cloud-native production environments
- Knowledge of incident and problem management practices
- Passion for automation, continuous improvement and engineering excellence
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical standards
Bonus Points
- Experience with AIOps solutions
- Exposure to AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot
- Experience working in enterprise-scale cloud environments
- Strong understanding of platform engineering operating models
- Previous consulting or client-facing experience
Ready for Your Next Challenge?
If you're looking for an opportunity to work on modern cloud platforms, influence engineering best practices and develop your career within one of the world's leading technology consultancies, we'd love to hear from you.
Please note: Successful applicants must be eligible for BPSS and Security Clearance (SC), including five years' continuous UK address history.