DevOps Engineer - Manchester

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.
• Industry certifications across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or DevOps tooling are welcomed but not essential.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Support
• Kanban
• Kubernetes
• Security
• Docker
• GitLab
• Grafana
• Jenkins
• Nexus
• Prometheus
• 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 help design, build, and support the cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment platforms behind high-impact digital services. This is a technically challenging opportunity with hybrid and flexible working, flexitime on a 37.5-hour 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. We also 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 36 week of 2026