DevOps Engineer

Salary: £60,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Commercial experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering supporting production software.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins or similar tools.
• Excellent knowledge of Docker and containerised application deployment.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Ansible, Terraform or equivalent.
• Scripting experience using Python, Bash or similar.
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Experience deploying software into on-premises or restricted infrastructure environments.
• Familiarity with messaging platforms and relational databases such as RabbitMQ, MariaDB or equivalent technologies.
• Ability to obtain UK Security Clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to automate software build, testing and release processes.
• Develop and improve deployment and upgrade automation using Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Build and manage development, integration and pre-production environments.
• Automate environment provisioning to ensure consistency and repeatability.
• Create and maintain monitoring, health checks and deployment reporting across multiple environments.
• Develop tooling and documentation that enables engineering teams to deploy and manage software independently.
• Work closely with development teams to improve build reliability, deployment efficiency and operational resilience.
• Maintain version control, traceability and release management processes across the software lifecycle.
• Contribute to capacity planning and continuous improvement of the engineering platform.

Technologies:

• Ansible
• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Docker
• GitLab
• Support
• Jenkins
• Linux
• MariaDB
• Python
• RabbitMQ
• Security
• Terraform
• Cloud

More:

We are a collaborative, highly skilled engineering team based in Reading, working in a hybrid setup with regular office collaboration. We build and support a mission-critical, enterprise-scale software platform used in demanding operational environments. You will join us in applying modern engineering practices with a strong focus on automation, continuous improvement, and reliable software delivery, while benefiting from a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and excellent opportunities for career progression.

last updated 31 week of 2026