Senior DevOps Engineer

We are excited to be working with a market-leading organisation undergoing a major technology transformation journey. With significant investment in cloud, platforms, and modern engineering practices, this is a fantastic opportunity to join at a pivotal moment.

This business is evolving from a traditional infrastructure environment into a modern, cloud-first ecosystem and they’re looking for someone to help lead that change, influence strategy, and bring teams along the journey.

What you will do

You’ll play a key role in driving platform engineering capability across the organisation, leading from the front both technically and strategically.

• Lead the design and delivery of cloud-based platforms in AWS
• Drive adoption of automation, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices
• Support the transformation of legacy workloads into containerised and cloud-native architectures
• Act as a technical leader and escalation point for complex platform challenges
• Mentor and coach engineers, helping raise capability across the team
• Influence standards, tooling, and best practices across the platform function

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and reusable cloud platforms
• Implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling
• Define and enforce engineering standards, patterns, and documentation
• Lead on platform support, maintenance, and security compliance
• Implement monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery solutions
• Continuously improve performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineers
• Support architectural decisions and solve complex technical challenges

What we are looking for

• Strong experience in platform engineering / DevOps environments
• Hands-on experience with AWS (ideally also exposure to GCP)
• Strong knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation tools
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines / GitOps environments
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and microservices architectures
• Strong understanding of infrastructure, networking, and security principles
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments

Details

• Location: Northampton (hybrid – 2 days per week onsite)
• Salary: £60,000 – £75,000 + up to 15% bonus
• Contract: Permanent

If this sounds like you apply below!