Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

AWS / Kubernetes / Terraform / CI/CD / Infrastructure as Code

Oxfordshire (Hybrid - 2 days a week in the office)

£85,000 - £110,000 DOE

Want to be the senior voice on infrastructure, with real say over how software reaches production?

This Senior DevOps Engineer role is with a growing UK technology company building AI-led products for customers who work in high-stakes sectors. You'll be the most experienced platform engineer in a small team, with direct influence over the tools, standards and priorities the engineering group works to.

It's a permanent role in Oxfordshire, hybrid, with 2 days a week in the office.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and running secure multi-account AWS environments, defined entirely as code
• Managing container platforms in the cloud and on-premises, with automated GitOps‑style deployments
• Leading security reviews and hardening across the estate
• Owning monitoring, alerting and resilience, including regular backup and recovery testing
• Keeping cloud spend and capacity under control, and supporting compliance audits
• Handling incidents and coaching developers on secure delivery

• A strong DevOps or SRE background, with recent hands‑on AWS experience
• Deep Kubernetes experience, ideally including on‑premises clusters, plus Helm Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and GitOps tooling, with Docker and Linux
• Experience managing artifact repositories and integrating single sign‑on
• Scripting in Bash and Python or Go, and security testing built into pipelinesDesirable: MLOps experience, Prometheus‑style observability, security frameworks such as ISO 27001, active SC clearance

What’s On Offer

• Pension with employer contribution
• Private healthcare
• Generous holiday allowance
• Hybrid working, 2 days a week in the officePlease note: You must be eligible for UK security clearance (BPSS and SC), which requires a UK passport and 5 years of continuous UK residency. Clearance can be sponsored for the right candidate.

This role may suit candidates who have held roles including: Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Platform Engineer, Senior AWS Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer