137 Senior Devops Engineer jobs in the United Kingdom

DevOps Engineer | Cheshire (Hybrid) | £70,(Apply online only) - 75,(Apply online only) per annum + Benefits

We're hiring a DevOps Engineer to help build and support the cloud infrastructure behind a rapidly growing technology platform. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, automating systems, and working collaboratively across development and operations teams.

You'll play a central part in maintaining secure, scalable environments that power business-critical applications, with plenty of opportunity to influence technical direction and drive improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and manage robust infrastructure using AWS services
• Deploy, maintain, and scale containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and updates using Terraform
• Manage message queuing systems with RabbitMQ and AWS SQS
• Implement system monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure reliability and performance
• Support CI/CD pipelines and work with developers to streamline deployments
• Troubleshoot production issues and conduct root cause analysis
• Maintain security best practices and ensure compliance across cloud platforms
• Continuously evaluate and optimise infrastructure for performance and cost

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in a DevOps or Cloud Engineering role
• Hands-on expertise with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools and modern development workflows
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
• Solid grasp of cloud security, IAM, and best practices for operational excellence
• Proactive problem solver with excellent troubleshooting skills
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, ideally within Agile teams
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a forward-thinking, fast-moving tech team where your voice will be heard and your work will make a real impact. You'll gain exposure to modern tools and cloud technologies while contributing to meaningful platform improvements in a supportive and innovative environment.

DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our team and support the development, deployment, and operation of scalable, reliable, and secure systems. In this role, you will collaborate closely with development, QA, and IT teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure, and ensure efficient monitoring and incident response. Ideal candidates have strong experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).

DevOps Engineer

Bristol

6-month contract

Paying up to 85p/h (Outside IR35)

Our client a large Aerospace company is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to be based out of there Bristol site. As a DevOps Engineer you?ll be involved in various stages of each product's lifespan and should remain abreast of technological advancements to promote efficiency.

Responsibilities :

• Collaborating with coworkers to conceptualize, develop, and release software.
• Conducting quality assurance to ensure that the software meets prescribed guidelines.
• Rolling out fixes and upgrades to software, as needed.
• Securing software to prevent security breaches and other vulnerabilities.
• Collecting and reviewing customers' feedback to enhance user experience.
• Suggesting alterations to the workflow in order to improve efficiency and success.
• Pitching ideas for projects based on gaps in the market and technological advancements.

Experience required:

• Degree in computer science, software engineering, or an adjacent field.
• Prior experience at all phases of the software product life cycle, from conception to extinction.
• Have experience with CI/CD (e.g. Gitlab CI, Terraform, Ansible, Helm Charts, Python, PowerShell, REST APIs)
• Secret Management experience: Hashicorp Vault Operating Systems (Redhat & Windows)
• Must Have Application Experience: Apache NiFi, Elastic ECK, Artifactory
• Experience using an array of automation tools.
• Familiarity with software security methods.
• Demonstrated experience using a wide variety of coding languages.
• Curious, discerning envelope pusher.
• Top-notch decision-making and collaborative abilities.
• Customer-oriented with the ability to receive and use constructive criticism.
• You will be required to hold a high level of UK security clearance in this position

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.

DevOps Engineer

Remote

Full time

Up to £55,000 per annum depending on experience

A fantastic opportunity for a DevOps Engineer to join an established, leading technology company with exciting growth plans.

Benefits: Remote working; Up to £100 per month contribution to office costs; Private healthcare; Contributory pension; 23 days Annual leave + statutory Bank holidays + birthday off

Must have right to work in the UK.

The Business

Our client is an established but growing company providing a state-of-the-art technology platform for the sale and administration of insurance products. They are the #1 technology platform for Commercial Lines Insurers, MGA’s & Brokers. A heavily R&D based business that has continually invested in technology and has a cloud-native offering with API first technology on Microsoft Azure.

The Opportunity

Our client provides a cutting-edge Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for insurance businesses across the UK.

The company’s in-house development team is dedicated to continuously enhancing the functionality of the product, ensuring it remains at the forefront of insurance technology.

They offer a business-critical comprehensive business SaaS insurance solution designed to empower their customers by enabling them to securely store customer data, generate accurate quotes, and configure automated workflows, alongside a host of other powerful features.

The successful candidate will work closely with the company’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to streamline development operations, ensure platform uptime, performance and stability, and drive continuous improvement through proactive recommendations.

This role presents an exciting opportunity for a talented DevOps Engineer to grow into a leadership position as the company continues to expand.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the day-to-day management of the platform, ensuring optimal performance, security, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with the CTO to identify and implement platform enhancements that prioritise scalability, reliability, and robust security.
• Support company with cost reduction across cloud platforms by optimising deployments, implementing cost effective solutions and advising the business on cost saving opportunities.
• Maintain and optimise GitLab Community Edition and GitLab pipelines, Azure DevOps Projects and Pipelines, embedding industry-leading CI/CD practices to streamline development workflows.
• Manage, monitor and scale Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) clusters, leveraging automation for efficient deployments and resource management.
• Utilise Grafana to monitor platform performance, create actionable dashboards, and establish alerts for proactive issue identification and resolution.
• Support and enhance the utility cluster, managing essential tools such as Devtron, Octopus Deploy, and a mail server (Postal) to ensure uninterrupted operations.
• Champion the adoption of DevOps best practices, driving automation, optimising deployment cycles, and minimising manual interventions

Requirements:

• Education: Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience. 

Required Skills/Experience :

• Expertise in Azure and Azure DevOps, NGINX, Redis, RabbitMQ, GitLab Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), and PostgreSQL databases. 
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and related tools (e.g. Helm, Argo). 
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools like Grafana and setting up alerting systems. 
• Familiarity with Devtron, Octopus Deploy, and mail server management (postal) is highly desirable. 
• Knowledge of best practices in cloud security, performance, and automation. 

Desirable Skills :

• Expertise in Azure and Azure DevOps, GitLab Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), and PostgreSQL databases.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and related tools (e.g. Helm, Argo).
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools like Grafana and setting up alerting systems.
• Familiarity with Devtron, Octopus Deploy, and mail server management (postal) is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of best practices in cloud security, performance, and automation

Apply with your CV for the best outcome.

Introduction

Saab UK is a British company that is part of Saab Group's global high-technology operations. Saab offers world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space and civil security. In the UK, we bring together the best of Swedish and British innovation and engineering to provide our customers with products and solutions that push boundaries for what is considered technically possible. Our mission is to help our customers to keep people and society safe.

As part of the global entity Saab AB, Saab UK combines the innovative spirit of a start-up with the resources and expertise of a larger corporation. Across the country, we have seven principal sites which focus on software engineering, AI swarming drones, underwater robotics, training services and radars. Globally, we number over 24,000 employees and have operations on all continents. Technologically, we are leaders in many areas and we reinvest a high proportion of our earnings in internal research and development. We collaborate with colleagues around the world who all share our challenge - to make the world a safer place.

Saab is a company with opportunities, a company where we see diversity as an asset and where you have both considerable responsibility as well as good opportunities for advancing in your career. Additionally, Saab is a company that respects each person's needs for a rewarding life beyond work.

The Role:

This role is part of our Sensor Systems Radar Business Unit in Farnborough.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining an efficient development-to-production pipeline. You'll sit closely with all the software developers, providing feedback and learning from each other how to achieve the best quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Automation & Deployment: Design, implement, and maintain automated deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket CI/CD and others

• System Monitoring & Maintenance: Monitor the health, performance or the current state of both the product and the CI/CD pipelines

• Collaboration: Work closely with software developers, software testers, and other cross-functional teams to define and implement scalable, efficient, and high-performing infrastructure solutions.

• CI/CD Pipeline: Set up and manage CI/CD workflows, enabling rapid and reliable software deployment cycles and improving release cycles with minimal downtime.

• Security & Compliance: Implement best practices for security, access control, and regulatory compliance within the infrastructure and development pipelines.

• Configuration Management: Maintain and optimize configurations for systems, tools, and environments, ensuring consistency across different platforms and stages of development.

Qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor or Master in computer science or similar.

• Experience with DevOps engineering, CI/CD or similar - Setting up and creating CI/CD Pipelines.

• Interest in DevOps, Software and Quality.

• Working in a structured way and comfortable creating technical documentation.

• Working in an Agile environment.

• Experience of Safety critical software.

• Software lifecycles.

• Jira, Jenkins, Git, Jenkins.

• Microsoft Office package.

• Linux environments.

By submitting an application to Saab UK you consent to undertaking workforce screening activities that may include but are not limited to: Baseline Personnel Security checks, National Security Vetting, reference checks, verification of working rights and in all circumstances preferred candidates will be placed through a security interview.

DevOps Engineer (SC & NPPV3)

Permanent 

Birmingham (Hybrid)

£70,000- £75,000 + Benefits

We are seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer with AWS experience for a Permanent position. The role requires travel to Birmingham 2-3 days a week  and an immediate start, ideally in July/ August 2025.

Active SC clearance  (that has been used within the last 12 months) and NPPV3  (that's been used within the last 6 months) are required for this role.

A Chance to Work with a Leading Digital Transformation Business Delivering Large-scale, Long-term IT Projects for the Public Sector.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Good experience with AWS technologies (e.g., EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an AWS-based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
li>Provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as Vagrant.
• Experience with DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime AWS environment , including automation experience with configuration management tools.
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell, Perl, JAVA) and automation skills.
• Thorough knowledge of Jenkins and pipeline using Groovy script.
• Experience with Docker containers and Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.
• Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, and Node exporter).
• Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on Digital or Technology projects at a government organisations.
• Linux system administration experience, including building, hardening, and managing Linux operating systems.  MS Active Directory configuration and management.
li>Firewall and switch configuration and patch management.  Understanding of network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).

DevOps Engineer

• AWS, Windows Server, Jenkins, Microservices
• Salary circa 75,000 plus benefits
• 2 Days per week in the Southampton office plus on call shift once every three weeks

DevOps Engineer required to join a leading international Software Business committed to delivering high-performance IT solutions. This is a large operation and will be working within the integrated part of the software engineering team with specific focus on facilitating and building automated pipelines for continuous delivery of the team's deliverables.

As a DevOps Engineer you will maintain and contribute to the ongoing reliability, performance and support of the cloud services and infrastructure. This includes monitoring the operating environments, responding to incidents, problems and helping other teams as necessary.

These roles have been created by team expansion and new client wins.

Key Responsibilities:

• Defining and developing continuous integration and deployment pipelines
• Building Infrastructure as Code
• Coordinating build and release activities with other stakeholders
• Manage day to day operations of release pipelines, build tools and source control software
• Troubleshooting and responding to downtime, performance degradation and outside attacks
• Perform ongoing maintenance and upgrades of DevOps systems
• Identifying, researching and prototyping new technologies to improve DevOps processes

Skills Required:

• AWS (at least 5 years experience)
• Windows Admin
• Jenkins
• Github / Bitbucket
• Experience writing scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Powershell

If you have the relevant skills for this role and are ready for the challenge, then please send your CV to (url removed)

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

DevOps Engineer – Remote  -1 Day P/W Derby - £50,000 -  £60,000 + Benefits

AWS, Azure, CI/CD, Terraform, Git, Python, ARM

Role Overview

We are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to design, implement and maintain robust cloud infrastructure solutions across AWS and Azure platforms. This role plays a pivotal part in enabling continuous integration and delivery, ensuring system reliability, embedding security best practices, and actively contributing to team development through knowledge sharing. This role will be mainly remote with 1 day per week in our clients Derbyshire offices

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and manage scalable, secure infrastructure in AWS and Azure
li>Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps
• Implement and manage monitoring, alerting and logging systems (e.g. Datadog, Logic Monitor, SolarWinds)
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform
• Ensure compliance with security policies; manage IAM, PIM and RBAC access controls
• Respond to incidents and contribute to root cause analysis and post-mortem reviews
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation and runbooks
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align DevOps practices with wider project goals
• Ensure adherence to regulatory standards including CQC , GDP , NMC , GPhC , and ICO relevant to the role
• Remain fully informed of responsibilities relating to Infection Prevention and Control

Technical Skills & Experience

• Cloud Platforms - Hands-on experience with AWS and Azure. Any relevant certifications (e.g. AWS Architect, AZ-104, AZ-305)
• DevOps & CI/CD - Strong grasp of DevOps principles. Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins. AZ-400 certification desirable
• Containerisation - Experience with AKS/EKS, Proficiency in AWS CloudFormation or ARM templates
• Scripting & Automation - Proficient in PowerShell, Bash, or Python
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Certified: Terraform Associate preferred
• Monitoring & Observability - Familiarity with tools like Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
• Security & Compliance - Strong understanding of IAM, cloud security, compliance frameworks

For immediate consideration apply now!

DevOps Engineer (SC & NPPV3)

Permanent 

Birmingham (Hybrid)

£70,000- £75,000 + Benefits

We are seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer with AWS experience for a Permanent position. The role requires travel to Birmingham 2-3 days a week  and an immediate start, ideally in July 2025.

Active SC clearance  (that has been used within the last 12 months) and NPPV3  (that's been used within the last 6 months) are required for this role.

A Chance to Work with a Leading Digital Transformation Business Delivering Large-scale, Long-term IT Projects for the Public Sector.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Good experience with AWS technologies (e.g., EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an AWS-based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
li>Provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as Vagrant.
• Experience with DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime AWS environment , including automation experience with configuration management tools.
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell, Perl, JAVA) and automation skills.
• Thorough knowledge of Jenkins and pipeline using Groovy script.
• Experience with Docker containers and Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.
• Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, and Node exporter).
• Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on Digital or Technology projects at a government organisations.
• Linux system administration experience, including building, hardening, and managing Linux operating systems.  MS Active Directory configuration and management.
li>Firewall and switch configuration and patch management.  Understanding of network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).