DevOps Engineer

Salary: £66,000 - 106,000 per year

Requirements:

• We recruit DevOps Engineers and Managers at many levels, so we are interested to hear from applicants regardless of length of experience.
• Active interest in the cloud operating environment, with evidence of self-development in this discipline.
• Good understanding of cloud infrastructure as a service and cloud platform as a service.
• Active ability and interest in scripting languages.
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure on Azure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience with build and CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Exposure to application development.
• Good understanding of cloud design patterns and experience using them to solve complex problems.
• Security Clearance (SC) is required for this role.
• To be eligible for full SC, we generally need applicants to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years; in some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build industry leading cloud-based infrastructure on Azure.
• Use modern DevSecOps practices to create and manage secure, low-maintenance cloud environments.
• Create and maintain development tools to enable effective and efficient CI/CD pipelines.
• Help shape and grow our cloud estate, with no legacy systems to support.
• Automate and improve the development and release process.
• Support release and production environments where necessary.
• Maintain the technical solution for infrastructure.
• Define and develop the means for products to be correctly deployed in line with established rules.
• Support delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources, including compute, network, and storage, in a simple and efficient manner.
• Secure the platform infrastructure.
• Understand the functional context of the product and challenge functional decisions where appropriate.
• Ensure operational best practices, including supervision and monitoring, backups, archives, and log management, are implemented.
• Ensure the squad is informed and aware of operational constraints, and train the team on those topics when required.
• Uphold security best practices across the platform.
• Educate and communicate with the wider UK community.

Technologies:

• Ansible
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• DevOps
• Support
• Network
• Security
• Terraform

More:

We are Thales, a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees across five continents and over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security. In our Cyber Security & Digital Identity (CDI) area, we help businesses and governments authenticate identities and protect data through secure software, biometrics, and encryption. This role is based in Carolina Court, Doncaster, and we are transforming to a cloud-operating environment within our UK Digital Competence Centre, shaping tools and processes for development teams moving into DevSecOps ways of working. We offer a range of benefits including a performance-related bonus, half-day Fridays, 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, private healthcare, pension, life cover, volunteering time, employee assistance support, shopping and gym discounts, and more depending on the role. We are committed to equal opportunities, pay and working conditions for all, and to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued.

last updated 36 week of 2026