DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Location: Reading (hybrid)

Type: Permanent, full-time

Salary: £65k

A growing software business in Reading is looking for a mid-level DevOps Engineer to take ownership of how it builds, ships and runs its infrastructure.

You'll join at the point where it matters most - automating deployments, standing up CI/CD properly, and shaping the tooling and workflows the engineering team relies on. It's a hands-on role with genuine influence, working side by side with the Engineering Lead to decide how things are done, not just keep them running.

The work

• Design and automate CI/CD pipelines that let the team ship quickly and safely
• Write Terraform to provision infrastructure as code - repeatable, version-controlled, no manual setup
• Build and run a modern Kubernetes platform underpinning the products
• Bring infrastructure under automation, cutting out manual toil and one-off fixes
• Set up monitoring, alerting and observability so issues are caught early
• Own reliability and uptime, and help define how the team responds when things break
• Embed good DevOps practice - automation, repeatability and clean handoffs between dev and ops

What you'll need

• Hands-on Kubernetes - managing and operating clusters day to day
• Terraform - comfortable writing and maintaining infrastructure as code
• A major cloud platform - GCP or AWS
• Building and running CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar)
• Confident on Linux and networking - able to debug at the infrastructure layer
• A DevOps mindset - you automate first and think in terms of repeatability and reliability

Nice to have

• GitOps workflows and deployment automation (ArgoCD, Flux or similar)
• Containerisation and orchestration beyond the basics (Helm, operators)
• Exposure to Elasticsearch or other search/data platforms
• Cloud security, secrets management and access control
• Monitoring and alerting tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or similar)
• Scripting for automation and tooling (Bash, Python, Go)
• Experience modernising or migrating legacy infrastructure

Why this one

• Real influence over tooling, workflows and how the team ships - not inheriting someone else's setup
• A greenfield build with room to do it properly from the start
• Direct line to the Engineering Lead and a say in technical direction
• A small team where your work is visible and what you build gets used
• Permanent role, hybrid working, clear scope to grow as the team expands
• Modern Reading office with free on-site parking

How to apply

Submit your CV to be considered, and we'll be in touch with the full details.