Senior DevOps Engineer (DV)
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer in London designing, building and operating secure AWS cloud platforms supporting critical defence services. Day to day: Terraform IaC, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes/Docker deployments, observability and security hardening, plus mentoring engineers and stakeholder engagement in a secure enterprise environment.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will design, build and operate secure, cloud-native platforms on AWS to support critical defence services. You will lead DevOps best practices, automate infrastructure and pipelines, and work with cross-functional teams to enhance resilience and security. You’ll mentor engineers and engage stakeholders to drive platform engineering decisions. This role offers meaningful impact in a highly secure, enterprise environment and opportunities to shape deployment automation and observability at scale.
Responsibilities- Design, build and maintain scalable AWS cloud infrastructure
- Develop and enhance Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- Build, optimise and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Champion DevOps culture and engineering best practices across teams
- Improve platform resilience, observability, security and performance
- Collaborate with software engineers, architects and senior stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities
- Support containerised workloads and cloud-native deployments
- Lead technical discussions and provide guidance on platform engineering decisions
- Extensive hands-on DevOps or Platform Engineering experience in complex enterprise or government environments
- Strong AWS expertise across core services, networking, security and platform design
- Proven experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Strong CI/CD experience using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or similar
- Containerisation and orchestration experience (Kubernetes and Docker)
- Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash)
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability solutions
- Excellent communication skills for engaging technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience operating in secure or regulated environments
- communication
- stakeholder engagement
- leadership/mentoring
- AWS
- Terraform
- CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)