Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Predominantly home-based, with occasional travel to client sites in London. Ideally based near Bristol, Cheltenham, Manchester
Salary: £60,000-£80,000 (individual contributor role, not Team Lead)
Clearance: SC cleared or clearable
About the client
SR2 is supporting on of our long standing consultancy clients who are on a mission to make the UK the safest place to work online. They deliver highly secure, technically challenging projects for UK Government clients. They invest heavily in their people - regular team socials, an annual company trip, five fully paid training days a year, and genuine career progression.
The role
You'll join a small, fast-paced agile delivery team, taking a leading role across the project lifecycle - from architecture and build through to managing customer relationships. There's a big, brand-new AI project on offer right now, genuinely exciting stuff, but very confidential at this stage. It involves taking a newly designed AI system and implementing/scaling it into a live working environment. It requires standard security clearance so ideally you will be cleared already or happy to go through clearance.
What you'll do
Build and operate CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code
Design platform services for deployment, operation and monitoring of containerised products
Build new infrastructure (not just maintain existing environments)
Work in public/private cloud, primarily AWS
Support Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), mentor junior team members, manage customer relationships
What we're looking for
Strong AWS experience essential (AWS-focused, not Azure)
Solid grounding in security principles and secure-by-design practices
Experience with CI/CD, containerisation, IaC, testing frameworks
Comfortable leading design work and mentoring early-career engineers
Strong stakeholder management skills
Benefits
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Group pension scheme with matched employer contributions
Private health insurance after probation, with option to add family cover
Life insurance and personal accident cover
Health & wellbeing cash plan (dental, optical, physio and more)
Employee assistance programme
Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, and interest-free PC loan
Stock purchase plan with company top-up
Five fully paid training days a year and clear routes for career progressionThe role is home based with adhoc travel to London. 2 stage interview happening asap
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