Senior DevOps Engineer
Summary
Senior DevOps engineer role at a UK company building AI-led products, based in Oxfordshire (hybrid, 2 office days/week). Day to day: designing secure multi-account AWS environments as code, running Kubernetes and GitOps CI/CD, owning monitoring/backup/recovery, leading security hardening and coaching developers. Core stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Python/Go.
Senior DevOps Engineer
AWS / Kubernetes / Terraform / CI/CD / Infrastructure as Code
Oxfordshire (Hybrid - 2 days a week in the office)
£85,000 - £110,000 DOE
Want to be the senior voice on infrastructure, with real say over how software reaches production?
This Senior DevOps Engineer role is with a growing UK technology company building AI-led products for customers who work in high-stakes sectors. You'll be the most experienced platform engineer in a small team, with direct influence over the tools, standards and priorities the engineering group works to.
It's a permanent role in Oxfordshire, hybrid, with 2 days a week in the office.
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing and running secure multi-account AWS environments, defined entirely as code
- Managing container platforms in the cloud and on-premises, with automated GitOps-style deployments
- Leading security reviews and hardening across the estate
- Owning monitoring, alerting and resilience, including regular backup and recovery testing
- Keeping cloud spend and capacity under control, and supporting compliance audits
- Handling incidents and coaching developers on secure delivery
What You'll Bring
- A strong DevOps or SRE background, with recent hands-on AWS experience
- Deep Kubernetes experience, ideally including on-premises clusters, plus Helm Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and GitOps tooling, with Docker and Linux
- Experience managing artifact repositories and integrating single sign-on
- Scripting in Bash and Python or Go, and security testing built into pipelines
Desirable: MLOps experience, Prometheus-style observability, security frameworks such as ISO 27001, active SC clearance
What's On Offer
- Pension with employer contribution
- Private healthcare
- Generous holiday allowance
- Hybrid working, 2 days a week in the office
Please note: You must be eligible for UK security clearance (BPSS and SC), which requires a UK passport and 5 years of continuous UK residency. Clearance can be sponsored for the right candidate.
This role may suit candidates who have held roles including: Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Platform Engineer, Senior AWS Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer