DevOps Engineer

Location: Hereford (Hybrid – 2–3 days onsite per week)

Salary: £50,000 – £70,000 per annum, depending on experience

Clearance: SC Clearable – Sole British Nationals only

Role Type: Permanent

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced DevOps / Platform Engineer to join an Agile engineering team delivering a large-scale cloud application. You will take ownership of AWS cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and automated CI/CD pipelines, while helping mentor junior engineers in a highly collaborative environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, implement, and maintain resilient, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Deploy, scale, and manage Kubernetes clusters alongside Docker and Helm.
• Automation & CI/CD: Develop and maintain automated tools and pipelines for build, deployment, monitoring, testing, and infrastructure maintenance.
• Optimise system performance for high availability and fault tolerance, establishing policies for security, compliance, and disaster recovery.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Guide and mentor junior DevOps engineers within an Agile team environment.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven commercial experience in a dedicated DevOps or Platform Engineering role.
• Strong hands-on expertise with AWS (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm).
• Solid background building automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins).
• Strong problem-solving mindset with experience monitoring, troubleshooting, and tuning high-availability cloud applications.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, team-first approach.

Security Clearance Requirements

Candidates must hold active SC Clearance or be eligible to undergo SC Clearance (requiring a British Passport and a minimum of 5 years continuous UK residency).