Senior DV Cloud Engineer
Summary
Design and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for UK Government and Defence projects using AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
Salary: £69,000 - 109,000 per year
Requirements:- Commercial experience building, deploying, and supporting secure production systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation.
- Knowledge of containers, orchestration, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience working across the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Comfortable working in Agile environments using Scrum or Kanban.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
- Experience with one or more of the following technologies is beneficial: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Packer, Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Artifactory, Nexus Repository, and serverless architectures.
- Industry certifications across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or DevOps tooling are welcomed but not essential.
- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment platforms.
- Develop and manage automated CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery.
- Build and operate shared platform services for deployment, monitoring, observability, and operational support.
- Create and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
- Deploy, manage, and optimise solutions across AWS, Azure, and private cloud environments.
- Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and delivery teams to improve automation, security, and platform reliability.
- Monitor system health, performance, and availability while proactively identifying opportunities for optimisation.
- Contribute to DevOps best practices, continuous improvement initiatives, and engineering standards.
- AWS
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Docker
- GitLab
- Grafana
- Support
- Jenkins
- Kanban
- Kubernetes
- Nexus
- Prometheus
- Security
- Serverless
- Terraform
More:
We are partnering with a growing, mission-led technology consultancy delivering secure, modern software solutions to the UK Government and Defence sector. You will join a collaborative engineering team working in small, high-performing agile teams to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient applications. This is a hybrid and flexible role with a 37.5-hour flexitime working week, a learning and development budget for certifications, conferences, and training, private healthcare, matched pension contributions, monthly socials, quarterly company events, and clear technical and career progression opportunities. We offer a collaborative, inclusive culture that values innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement, with the opportunity to contribute to projects supporting UK national security and public services.
last updated 32 week of 2026