
Sanderson Government and Defence
Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements:- 6 years delivering production-grade cloud solutions
- DevSecOps and Zero Trust Architecture experience
- Commercial experience deploying and operating infrastructure and applications on AWS and other public/private hybrid cloud environments
- Experience with GitHub, GitLab, or the Atlassian Suite for source control and code review
- Experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Terraform and Ansible
- Experience with Test Driven Development and relevant tools and frameworks
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, EKS, or AKS
- Knowledge of event streaming technologies such as Kafka and Flink
- Build, test, and deploy cloud infrastructure and applications using CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code
- Contribute to custom test automation frameworks
- Maintain and update scripts as requirements evolve
- Support environment setup for manual and automated testing
- Investigate and resolve production incidents
- Conduct gap analysis and scope modifications
- Support contingency planning, including backup and restore procedures
- Document changes to modules and test activities
- Mentor and lead the team on delivery
- AWS
- Ansible
- Atlassian
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevSecOps
- Docker
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Support
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- TDD
- DevOps
- Flink
More:
We build, test, and deploy cloud infrastructure and applications, and we support custom test automation, environment setup, incident resolution, and contingency planning. We are committed to respect, equality, and inclusion, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process, we encourage you to let us know so we can support you.
last updated 39 week of 2026
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Sanderson Government and Defence
Normanton
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£100,000
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£85,000
UK median
This salary is 18% above the UK median for Lead roles (£85,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks