Job Description:

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.

Apply today with your CV for this Senior DevOps Engineer role and we'll be in touch.

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

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