
Bright Purple Resourcing
DevOps Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £60,000 - 60,000 per year
Requirements:- We are looking for a well-rounded DevOps Engineer who is comfortable across the full delivery lifecycle.
- We need confident use of distributed version control systems such as Git or Mercurial.
- We want hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar.
- We require the ability to write clean, reliable scripts in Python, shell, PowerShell, or a similar language.
- We are looking for practical experience building, managing, and orchestrating OCI containers using tools such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, or LXC.
- We need a good understanding of artefact and dependency management across the delivery pipeline.
- We expect a solid grasp of networking essentials including DNS, IP, firewalls, VPN setup, and day-to-day troubleshooting.
- You must hold full eligibility to work in the UK.
- We will embed you within a skilled engineering function working across embedded firmware, developer tooling, and cloud-based applications.
- We will rely on you to improve the speed, reliability, and quality of software delivery.
- We will expect you to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and manage test environments.
- We will have you track performance through DORA metrics, ensure observability, and uphold security best practice throughout.
- We will ask you to work closely with engineering teams to understand how they build, test, and deploy software and use that insight to drive continuous improvement.
- We will expect you to help accelerate the pace of development.
- We will have you maintain environment stability as a key part of your remit.
- We will ask you to liaise directly with customers when deployments touch their own infrastructure.
- We will give you a broad, hands-on role with scope to shape how things are done.
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Docker
- Embedded
- Firmware
- Git
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- LXC
- Podman
- PowerShell
- Python
- Security
- VPN
More:
We are a Space-Tech company that is quietly becoming one of the UKs standout technology success stories. We are scaling rapidly, with demand growing fast across international markets and our platform helping reshape how complex space systems are built and operated. This role sits within a significant growth phase rather than a replacement hire, and we offer a salary of up to £60,000 depending on experience, flexible hybrid working from our Edinburgh office, 36 days annual leave, pension contribution, an employee ownership scheme, enhanced parental leave, a Health Cash Plan covering dental, optical, and physio, life assurance, ongoing investment in training, conferences, and professional development, international travel opportunities, and a genuinely inclusive and supportive working culture.
last updated 31 week of 2026
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Bright Purple Resourcing
Edinburgh
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