Lead DevOps Engineer

Salary: £80,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Active SC Clearance is mandatory.
• Extensive experience delivering DevOps and platform engineering solutions within AWS environments.
• Strong expertise across AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda and ECS/EKS.
• Significant Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
• Proven experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience within production environments.
• Scripting experience using Python and/or Bash.
• Strong understanding of Git and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile, multidisciplinary environments.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and decision-making abilities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Define cloud platform standards, architecture principles and best practices.
• Build secure, resilient and scalable cloud-native environments.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption and platform automation initiatives.
• Lead the development and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines across multiple teams.
• Improve platform observability through monitoring, logging and alerting solutions.
• Oversee Kubernetes and Docker-based platform implementations.
• Ensure environments meet security, governance and operational compliance requirements.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and coaching to DevOps engineers.
• Contribute to cloud strategy, architecture discussions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to deliver complex cloud transformation solutions.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Lambda
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• EC2
• Git
• IAM
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• Support

More:

We are Amber Labs, a leading UK and European technology consultancy delivering secure, user-centred digital services across government and public sector organisations. We work in a remote-first model with once-monthly travel to a client site in London and access to our Liverpool Street office for in-person collaboration. We offer 25 days annual leave plus public holidays, private medical insurance with Bupa, a personal training budget, Perkbox membership, employer pension contributions, a referral scheme offering up to £3,000 for successful hires, regular team socials, and the opportunity to join a growing consultancy early and help shape our direction and success. We are committed to an inclusive workplace built on collaboration, autonomy, continuous learning, and diversity.

last updated 32 week of 2026