DevOps Engineer

Technify Talent; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Comprehensive benefits

Career progression opportunities

Job summary

Technify Talent is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to own the delivery infrastructure for a mission-critical software platform. You will shape automated pipelines, deployment automation and environment provisioning to enable fast, repeatable software releases.

You will work with software engineers, platform specialists and test teams to continuously improve CI/CD, IaC and operational resilience in highly regulated environments. Hybrid work with Reading office is offered.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience in DevOps/Platform/Infrastructure supporting production software.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins or similar).
• Excellent knowledge of Docker and container deployment.
• Experience with IaC technologies such as Ansible, Terraform or equivalent.
• Scripting experience using Python or Bash.
• Experience deploying software into on-premises or restricted infrastructure environments.
• Familiarity with messaging platforms and relational databases (RabbitMQ, MariaDB).
• Monitoring and managing distributed software deployments.
• Experience in regulated/mission-critical environments.
• Knowledge of observability, deployment automation and release management best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test and release processes.
• Develop and improve deployment automation using IaC principles.
• Build and manage development, integration and pre-production environments.
• Automate environment provisioning for consistency and repeatability.
• Create and maintain monitoring, health checks and deployment reporting.
• Develop tooling and documentation to empower engineering teams to deploy independently.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve build reliability and deployment efficiency.
• Maintain version control, traceability and release management across the software lifecycle.
• Contribute to capacity planning and enhancement of the engineering platform.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Automation

Python/Bash

Observability

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Jenkins

Docker

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Build the infrastructure behind a mission-critical software platform.

We're looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to take ownership of the delivery infrastructure supporting a sophisticated software product used in demanding operational environments. You'll play a key role in ensuring software is built, tested and deployed efficiently through highly automated, reliable and scalable delivery pipelines.

Working closely with software engineers, platform specialists and test teams, you'll help drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, infrastructure automation and deployment processes while enabling fast, repeatable and dependable software releases.

Key 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.

Key Skills & Experience

• 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.
• Experience deploying software into on-premises or restricted infrastructure environments.
• Familiarity with messaging platforms and relational databases such as RabbitMQ, MariaDB or equivalent technologies.
• Monitoring and managing distributed software deployments.
• Experience working within highly regulated or mission-critical environments.
• Knowledge of modern observability, deployment automation and release management best practices.

What's on Offer

• Hybrid working with regular collaboration from the Reading office.
• Opportunity to work on technically challenging, enterprise-scale software.
• Modern engineering practices with a strong focus on automation and continuous improvement.
• Collaborative, highly skilled engineering teams.
• Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits and excellent opportunities for career progression.