DevOps Engineer

Solirius Consulting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy in Greater London is seeking a motivated DevOps Engineer to join its Software Engineering Practice. The ideal candidate will have substantial DevOps experience, particularly with Microsoft Azure, and be comfortable working in agile teams. Responsibilities include implementing scalable services, managing cloud delivery systems, and automating processes. This position offers a competitive salary, bonus scheme, private healthcare, and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Bonus Scheme

Private Healthcare Insurance

25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays

Up to 10 days development training per year

Enhanced Parental Leave

Paid Fertility Leave (5 Days)

Statutory & Contributory Pension

EAP with Help@Hand

Gym Membership Benefits

Flexible Working

Annual Away Days/Company Socials

Qualifications

• Strong analytical mindset and a passion for using technology to solve real-world problems.
• Strong communication skills and a consultative approach.

Responsibilities

• Understand and liaise with client requirements and stakeholders.
• Implement and maintain scalable services and applications.
• Manage continuous delivery systems across cloud environments (Azure).
• Provide feedback on platform performance.
• Advise on CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate development and release processes.

Skills

DevOps experience

Microsoft Azure

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Agile/Lean methodologies

Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment pipelines

Advocating DevOps principles

Government/Public Sector experience

Azure certification

Job description

About Us:

Solirius Reply, part of the Reply Group, delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients’ needs.

It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 300 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future.

We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants’ expertise in their fields in order to provide a best‑in‑class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.

About You:

You are a motivated and adaptable professional with a strong analytical mindset and a passion for using technology to solve real‑world problems. You enjoy working in collaborative, agile teams and take pride in delivering high‑quality solutions that make a tangible impact. With strong communication skills and a consultative approach, you’re comfortable engaging with clients, understanding their needs, and translating them into effective outcomes. You understand and align with Solirius Reply Values.

The Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Software Engineering Practice as a DevOps Engineer, to work alongside our team and help build out the capability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understanding client requirements, liaising with stakeholders and speaking with managers.
• Implementing solutions to deploy and maintain highly available and scalable citizen‑facing and private services and applications
• Implementing and managing continuous delivery systems and methodologies across cloud environments (Azure).
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• Providing feedback to project teams on how the platform is working
• Advise developers on how they use specific systems and configure CI/CD pipelines
• Automating and improving the development and release processes.

Key Skills/Experience:

• Substantial DevOps experience
• Microsoft Azure is essential, beneficial to have exposure to AWS and GCP
• Commercial experience hands on coding – Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is essential
• Ideally experience/exposure to Agile/Lean methodologies
• Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment pipelines
• Ability to advocate DevOps principles, practices and philosophy
• Beneficial to have worked within the Government previously or Public Sector
• Azure certification beneficial

Package and Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• Bonus Scheme
• Private Healthcare Insurance
• 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
• Up to 10 days allocated for development training per year
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Paid Fertility Leave (5 Days)
• Statutory & Contributory Pension
• EAP with Help@Hand
• Gym Membership Benefits
• Flexible Working
• Annual Away Days/Company Socials

Equality & Diversity:

Solirius Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages, and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.