Senior Solutions Engineer

Senior Solutions Engineer, DevOps

• Salary: £65,300 to £87,350
  
  
• Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (at least 2 days per week in the office)
  
  
• Contract: Permanent, Full-time (35 hours per week)
  
  We're looking for a Senior Solutions Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) within our Core Solutions team. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role where you'll blend technical expertise with strategic influence—mentoring a globally distributed team and driving innovation across automation, observability, and cloud infrastructure. You'll have the opportunity to lead change, embed best practices, and ensure our platforms remain scalable, reliable, and future-ready.
  
  We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
  
  About the Role
  
  The purpose of this role is to set the strategic direction for SRE and DevOps capabilities across Core Solutions, while remaining hands-on to deliver key objectives. You'll oversee software infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability solutions, and tooling to ensure efficient, reliable, and scalable code delivery and operational response processes. This role is critical in enabling us to deliver high-quality digital solutions at scale, embedding a culture of automation, measurement, and continuous improvement. It plays a key part in ensuring our platforms remain robust, cost-effective, and future-focused.
  
  As a core member of our engineering team, you will:
  
  
• Lead and coach the Core Solutions DevOps team, embedding SRE and DevOps principles across delivery streams.
  
  
• Own the roadmap and continuous improvement of our tools, infrastructure, and practices.
  
  
• Optimize cloud hosting and AWS service usage, driving FinOps awareness and accountability across development teams.
  
  
• Translate technical roadmaps into measurable business outcomes.
  
  
• Collaborate with stakeholders, architects, and service managers to align on strategy and ensure smooth delivery of change.
  
  
• Champion improvements by staying engaged with the global DevOps and SRE community.
  
  About you
  
  We're seeking an enthusiastic and technically skilled leader with deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps tooling.
  
  You'll bring:
  
  
• Proven hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  
  
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, observability, and cloud security best practices
  
  
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
  
  
• Significant experience in software engineering, technical delivery, or solution architecture
  
  
• A track record of successfully leading teams that deliver mission-critical services
  
  
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to influence at all levels of the organization
  
  
• A balanced approach to governance and delivery, supported by strong business acumen
  
  
• A passion for enabling and developing others, and for fostering a high-performance culture
  
  This is an exciting opportunity for someone driven by technical leadership, innovation, and the desire to make a meaningful impact in an organization that blends academic excellence with global reach.
  
  If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
  
  Rewards and benefits
  
  We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
  
  
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  
  
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
  
  
• Discretionary annual bonus
  
  
• Group personal pension scheme
  
  
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
  
  
• Green travel schemes
  
  We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
  
  If you choose to apply, please include a short cover letter with your application, making sure you specify you are applying for this vacancy. We look forward to hearing from you.
  
  Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
  
  We review applications on an ongoing basis, with the closing date set for 12th of September. Interviews are expected to begin in the weeks following the application deadline.
  
  Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
  
  Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
  
  Why join us
  
  Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
  
  Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
  
  We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
  
  Senior Solutions Engineer, DevOps