DevOps Engineer / Senior DevOps Engineer | Drive Innovation at Scale
DevOps Engineer / Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Newcastle, three days per week on site
Contract: 12-month fixed-term contract, with the intention to convert to permanent
Level: Senior Analyst / Consultant
We’re looking for DevOps Engineers at two experience levels to build and improve the environments, tooling and automated processes that support secure software delivery. The role suits both hands-on engineers growing their platform capability and experienced practitioners ready to lead workstreams and advise delivery teams.
What you’ll do
- Deliver environments and tools that support software development and testing.
- Configure and maintain CI/CD and quality tooling such as GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube and automated testing platforms.
- Automate infrastructure, integrations and delivery processes using infrastructure as code and scripting.
- Support cloud platforms, containerised workloads and orchestration technologies.
- Improve platform reliability, security, observability and delivery performance.
- At the more experienced level, provide technical leadership, identify delivery risks, define platform requirements and guide teams on DevOps best practice.
What we’re looking for
- Experience with at least one public or private cloud platform.
- Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD tools and practices.
- Infrastructure-as-code experience with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
- Exposure to configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift or similar container technologies.
- Scripting ability in Python, Node.js, TypeScript, PowerShell, Bash or a comparable language.
- For the upper end of the range, experience leading technical work, influencing stakeholders or improving platform strategy.
Applicants must be eligible for SC clearance. To be eligible, candidates must have five years of continuous UK address history, with no period of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside the UK during that time.
Requirements
Essential Requirements
To do well in this role, you’ll need:
- Problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Strong communication and collaboration
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Attention to detail and quality
- Ability to work across development, testing and operations teams
- Eligibility to work in the UK
- Ability to obtain SC clearance
Benefits
What We Offer
- Package: £35,000–£65,000, depending on experience and level, plus 23 days’ holiday and company pension.
- A supportive environment focused on your development.
- Exposure to exciting, fast paced projects.
- Opportunity to work with we large, well respected organisation to further your Java career.
- 3 days a week on site, with the rest from home.
- Relocation support of up to £1500.
Our Approach to Hiring
We’re committed to creating a fair, inclusive and supportive hiring experience for every candidate. We welcome applications from people with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, and we want you to feel comfortable bringing your authentic self to the process. If you feel like this is the right role for you, apply today to open up a world of opportunity!
Skills
As published by workable · 11 questions · 4 written answers
Basics
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Pick from a list (7)
- Ability to work onsite in Newcastle 5 days a week or relocate.
- Do you have a background in computing/coding? i.e accredited courses, previous bootcamps/training.
- Do you have work experience or higher education in a STEM subject/area (Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths)?
- Do you consider yourself to have a disability?
- Do you have any unspent convictions that you are required to disclose and that may be identified during a background check?
- Due to tax purposes, you must reside in the UK for your employment with _nology, please tick yes to confirm your understanding of this.
- _nology is committed to encouraging greater diversity and inclusion in the technology sector. Your responses will support _nology regarding its approach to communicating in as inclusive a way as possible, and measuring our impact on diversity and social mobility in the technology sector. Any responses that you provide will not affect your application with _nology. Please select yes to acknowledge that you have read and understood this statement.
Written answers (4)
- Do you have a UK passport or a UK birth certificate?
- If you have proof of right to work in the UK but you are not a citizen, please provide details about the type of visa you have. If you have a UK passport or birth certificate, please type N/A.
- When does your proof of right to work visa expire? If you have a UK passport or birth certificate, please type N/A.
- Do you consider yourself to be neurodivergent?