DevOps Engineer
Summary
DevOps Engineer at Jacobs designing, building and optimising secure, scalable AWS cloud-native platforms and CI/CD pipelines to support essential digital services, while coaching client teams on DevOps practices. Core stack: AWS, Terraform/AWS CDK, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Bash/Python, with SC clearance required.
In this DevOps Engineer role, you’ll design, build and optimise cloud-native platforms and delivery pipelines to support essential digital services. You’ll work within a multidisciplinary, agile team to modernise infrastructure and accelerate secure software delivery. You’ll champion DevOps practices, enable client teams, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement. This is an impact-focused opportunity to scale cloud platforms and empower high-performing engineering teams.
Pay / Benefits- Hybrid working policy
- Flexible working arrangements
- Well-being benefits
- Global giving and volunteering program
- Inclusive culture and belonging
- Career development opportunities
- Design, build and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
- Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment speed, reliability and quality
- Implement observability, monitoring and alerting solutions for meaningful operational insights
- Support cloud adoption, platform modernisation and migration of legacy workloads
- Coach and enable client teams on DevOps capabilities and best practices
- Collaborate with clients, architects, developers and stakeholders to solve complex challenges
- Champion DevOps culture and engineering excellence in agile settings
- Eligible for, or currently holding, SC Security Clearance
- Demonstrable experience delivering DevOps or Platform Engineering solutions within agile environments
- Strong AWS experience including cloud-native and serverless architectures
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or AWS CDK)
- CI/CD pipelines experience using Jenkins and modern source control
- Experience deploying containerised apps with Kubernetes, Helm and Docker
- Logging, monitoring and observability expertise
- Security-focused design of resilient, highly available cloud environments
- Linux and cloud environments deployment experience
- Scripting/automation with Bash; Python and/or TypeScript advantageous
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement
- Collaborative problem-solving mindset
- Mentoring and knowledge sharing
- AWS cloud architecture
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK)
- Jenkins and CI/CD tooling