2,624 Junior Devops Engineer jobs in the United Kingdom

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Location: Hybrid (client sites, offices, and home working)

65,000 - 75,000 + perm benefits

About the Role

We're looking for talented Cloud DevOps Engineers who are passionate about building modern platforms, learning new skills, and delivering meaningful outcomes for clients.

You'll be part of a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives are valued, and your contributions will help shape the future of cloud services in the UK.

We work in focused, agile teams where engineers come together to design, build, and maintain scalable cloud platforms. If you thrive in team-oriented environments, enjoy solving technical challenges, and are excited by continuous learning, this could be the perfect role for you.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain cloud platforms with a focus on reusability, standardisation, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Work in agile, outcome-driven teams closely aligned with client goals.
• Develop your expertise through training, certifications, and hands-on experience.
• Contribute to innovation and shared learning, helping evolve our cloud engineering capabilities.

What you'll bring

• Experience in platform engineering using tools such as Azure or AWS, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and GitHub.
• Familiarity with ITIL frameworks and end-to-end service delivery.
• Background in infrastructure and networking (beneficial but not essential).
• Hands-on experience deploying enterprise cloud solutions using code-based approaches.
• Ability to engage in technical discussions across architecture and engineering teams.
• A collaborative mindset and a passion for continuous improvement.

Cloud DevOps Engineer - West Cardiff/Hybrid - 49,000 per annum

I am seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to lead the delivery of secure, scalable, and cost-effective Azure environments and CI/CD automation. This is a key role in a growing organisation, presenting the opportunity to have real influence across the buisness, working across Infrastructure and Software Development teams to drive innovation and efficiency.

As Cloud DevOps Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing and implementing robust cloud infrastructure and automation pipelines. You'll play a central role in defining the DevOps strategy, managing Azure environments, and ensuring performance, security, and cost control. You'll also help shape the client's organisational capability by mentoring colleagues and embedding best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and automate DevOps strategies for deploying APIs, web apps, and services on Azure.
• Manage Azure infrastructure to ensure scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, monitor performance, and resolve issues.
• Work with developers, testers, and infrastructure teams to streamline delivery.
• Lead documentation and continuous improvement of DevOps processes.
• Stay current with Azure DevOps features and apply enhancements.
• Support stakeholder management and challenge delivery scope where needed.
• Challenge colleagues and contribute to organisational capability development.
• Identify opportunities to improve customer experience through technology.
• Promote company values and drive standards across teams.

About You

• Strong experience in Azure DevOps and cloud infrastructure management.
• Skilled in CI/CD, automation, and performance monitoring.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Passionate about continuous improvement and mentoring others.
• Committed to delivering customer-focused digital solutions.

This represents a great opportunity to be a part of a purpose-driven organisation focused on excellent across its customer base. You will be working in a forward-thinking and challenging environment with great people who work together towards a common goal. This is a hybrid role where you would be working from home at least 2 days per week.

The position is urgent, so please apply without delay!

Keywords: DevOps, Azure, CI/CD, Automation, APIs, Web Apps, Infrastructure, Software Development

If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

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Cloud DevOps Engineer

Location: Hybrid (client sites, offices, and home working)

65,000 - 75,000 + perm benefits

About the Role

We're looking for talented Cloud DevOps Engineers who are passionate about building modern platforms, learning new skills, and delivering meaningful outcomes for clients.

You'll be part of a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives are valued, and your contributions will help shape the future of cloud services in the UK.

We work in focused, agile teams where engineers come together to design, build, and maintain scalable cloud platforms. If you thrive in team-oriented environments, enjoy solving technical challenges, and are excited by continuous learning, this could be the perfect role for you.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain cloud platforms with a focus on reusability, standardisation, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Work in agile, outcome-driven teams closely aligned with client goals.
• Develop your expertise through training, certifications, and hands-on experience.
• Contribute to innovation and shared learning, helping evolve our cloud engineering capabilities.

What you'll bring

• Experience in platform engineering using tools such as Azure or AWS, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and GitHub.
• Familiarity with ITIL frameworks and end-to-end service delivery.
• Background in infrastructure and networking (beneficial but not essential).
• Hands-on experience deploying enterprise cloud solutions using code-based approaches.
• Ability to engage in technical discussions across architecture and engineering teams.
• A collaborative mindset and a passion for continuous improvement.

Cloud DevOps Engineer/Infrastruture Specialist | West Midlands | Current DV Clearance Required | 10-Month Intitial Contract | £500-£600p/day IIR35

We're seeking an experienced DevOps / Infrastructure Specialist to support the installation, implementation, and integration of COTS, MOTS, and MOD applications. This is a long-term contract role, inside IR35, with on-site presence required in West Midl.

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DevOps Engineer - Defence & National Security
Location: Manchester city centre (Hybrid) + North West client sites
Salary: 60,000 - 90,000 per annum
Security: SC required to start, must be willing to obtain DV

Are you a DevOps engineer looking for work that makes a real difference? We're expanding a specialist team in Manchester and are looking for DevOps professionals from all technical backgrounds who want to apply their skills to impactful projects in Defence and National Security.

You'll play a key role in building and running secure, scalable platforms that support mission-critical services. We welcome engineers with different tech stack experience - what matters most is your passion for automation, reliability, and problem solving in a collaborative environment.

What you'll do

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Build and manage cloud-native and containerised environments.
• Apply Infrastructure-as-Code, monitoring and Site Reliability Engineering principles to ensure resilience and performance.
• Collaborate with developers, testers, and client stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Share knowledge, contribute to a learning culture, and help shape the direction of a growing practice.

What we're looking for

• Hands-on experience in DevOps engineering, regardless of stack (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
• Strong understanding of automation and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience working in Agile teams.
• Curiosity, adaptability and eligibility for UK National Security vetting at DV level.

Why this role?

• Work only on high-impact, mission-critical Defence projects.
• Join at the ground floor of a growing team, with real scope for influence and progression.
• Hybrid flexibility in a modern city-centre location.

If you want to grow your DevOps career while contributing to work of real national importance, we'd love to hear from you

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Ifyouareamid-levelDevOpsEngineerwithexcellentcommunicationskillsandaproventrackrecordofworkingwithasmallandagileteam,wehaveanewrolewewouldliketodiscusswithyou.

PleasenotethisrolewillrequireonsiteattendancetwiceaweekinLondon.

Thisisaroleidealforsomeonewhohas2-3years'experienceinDevOps.

Responsibilities:

• DevelopandmaintainCI/CDpipelinesfromAzureDevOps
• Design,build,andmanageinfrastructureinAzure.
• DevelopandmaintaincollaborativetoolslikeJiraandtheirintegrationwithAzureDevOps,Mondaydotcom,Teamsetc.
• IntegratingAzureSSO/RBACintoallthecollaborationanddevelopmenttools.
• Implementmonitoring,logging,andalertingusingtoolslikePrometheus,Grafana,orELK
• ManagecontainerisedservicesusingDockerandKubernetes(EKS)
• Candidatewouldalsoberequiredtoaddfeaturesandsupportexistingsystem.

Skills:

• Provenhands-onexperiencewithMicrosoftAzure,includingnativeservicesandresourcemanagement.
• SolidunderstandingofDevOpsprinciplesandCI/CDpipelinedesign
• CI/CDtooling(AzureDevOps,GitHubActions,etc.)
• Git-basedworkflow(PR,Merges,Jirastatus,CIandthenCD).
• IaC(Terraform,ARM)
• Scripting(Python,PowerShell,Bash)
• Monitoringandalertingtools(e.g.Prometheus,Grafana,AzureMonitor).
• Collaborationtools(JiraandMonday dot com).
• IntegrationtoolslikePowerAutomate,Slacketc.
• GoodtohaveProgramminglanguage(C#/.Net/Python)

Job Title : DevSecOps Engineer
Location: Basingstoke – On-Site (Monday to Friday)
Clearance: DV (Developed Vetting) required before start

We are looking for a DevSecOps Engineer to join a cutting-edge programme supporting national defence initiatives. This is a full-time, on-site role based in Basingstoke, working with agile teams to implement and improve secure CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation for mission-critical systems.

Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be eligible and willing to undergo DV (Developed Vetting) clearance.

Working within a fast-paced and highly secure environment, you will contribute to one of the defence sector’s most advanced programmes. This role offers excellent opportunities for career growth, technical training, and direct impact on real-world defence operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Write and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Integrate and advise on the use of security tools (SCA/DAST/IAST), such as Black Duck, Coverity, Snyk, and JFrog.
• Implement automated testing frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Robot Framework).
• Support the configuration of secure secrets management using Azure DevOps and HashiCorp Vault.
• Work across both Linux and Windows environments.
• Support technical design decisions and ensure DevSecOps practices align with business and security objectives.
• Collaborate closely with scrum teams, DevSecOps leads, and other technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to re-usable IaC and automation artifacts and help other teams adopt best practices.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Experience with DevOps tooling and automation in secure environments.
• Proficient with CI/CD pipelines, Git, Terraform, Ansible, and security integration tools.
• Background in software development with strong problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of agile delivery and secure software engineering practices.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Please note: This role is in support of sensitive defence projects. UK nationality and eligibility for DV clearance are mandatory.

This is an excellent opportunity to work on meaningful, high-impact projects while developing your skills in a highly collaborative and technically advanced environment.

DevOps Engineer | 50,000 - 55,000 | Remote / UK-based

Role Overview

We're looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our software development team, supporting systems that serve tens of thousands of customers. You'll play a key role in deploying, monitoring and operating our applications across critical production environments, with a direct impact on user experience, customer satisfaction and company growth.

Working in an agile environment, you'll collaborate with engineers, architects and product colleagues to design and maintain scalable, resilient infrastructure. You'll use modern tools such as AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and Ansible, and bring a positive, organised and team-focused approach to solving complex problems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain infrastructure as code for development and production environments.
• Build, maintain and improve observability and monitoring solutions, ensuring system health and uptime, including participation in on-call rotation.
• Design, implement and optimise continuous delivery systems, advising development teams on resiliency, operability and best practices.
• Configure and administer advanced Kubernetes clusters (networking, storage, namespacing, multi-node groups).
• Configure and administer Kafka clusters with disaster recovery and data loss prevention mechanisms.
• Proactively identify points of failure in infrastructure and recommend improvements.
• Contribute to agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) to support delivery goals.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• 3+ years in a DevOps role, ideally within a SaaS environment.
• Strong background in distributed systems (load balancing, messaging, distributed databases).
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Expertise in cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
• Proven track record designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Git).
• Kubernetes cluster administration, including non-standard networking, storage classes and multi-node groups.
• Advanced Kafka administration, including topic configuration and disaster recovery.
• Knowledge of IP networking (TCP, UDP, firewalls, SSL).
• Familiarity with both Windows and Linux environments.
• Prior experience in application development, ideally SaaS and web-focused.
• Strong grasp of software engineering and design principles (patterns, event-driven architecture, CAP theorem).
• Security-minded approach at all levels.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Exposure to monitoring and reporting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture.
• Interest in continuous learning and bringing new ideas to the team.

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