DevOps Engineer: CI/CD, Automation & Infra (Bristol)

Kinneir Dufort; West of England; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

25 days holiday

Cycle to work

Job summary

Ensera Design Bristol seeks a hands-on DevOps Engineer to own development infrastructure, tooling, environments and automation, enabling software and engineering teams to deploy efficiently.

You’ll work with software, embedded, electronics and wider engineering teams to improve CI/CD, workflows, and deployment practices while maintaining core platforms underpinning the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience in one or more of the following: DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a similar technical role within a software or engineering environment.
• Strong working knowledge of the SDLC.
• Experience administering development platforms such as JIRA, Git, Bitbucket, Confluence, or CI/CD systems.
• Experience building, maintaining, or improving CI/CD pipelines.
• Good knowledge of Git and version control workflows.
• Familiarity with Linux environments and command-line administration.
• Experience with scripting and automation.
• Experience administering or supporting development infrastructure, servers, and associated services.
• Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPNs, and networking fundamentals.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across development environments, software, infrastructure, and connectivity.
• Experience working collaboratively with software and engineering teams to improve development workflows.
• Ability to take ownership of technical platforms and drive continuous improvement.
• Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines supporting software and engineering teams.
• Identify manual development and deployment activities that can be automated.
• Improve build, test, integration, and deployment workflows.
• Work with developers to create repeatable and reliable development processes.
• Support continuous integration practices and improve development feedback loops.
• Monitor pipeline performance and proactively resolve issues.
• Own and administer core development platforms and engineering toolsets.
• Manage access, permissions, integrations, and configurations.
• Ensure availability, performance, reliability, and security of development tools.
• Drive platform improvements, upgrades, integrations, and automation.
• Work with engineering teams to ensure tooling remains aligned with evolving development requirements.
• Maintain Linux-based development and build environments.
• Support infrastructure underpinning software development and engineering activities.
• Standardise development environments to improve consistency and repeatability.
• Automate environment configuration and routine administrative activities where possible.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, development tooling, networks, and software environments.
• Work closely with developers to continuously improve the developer experience.
• Support the full SDLC from requirements and development through to testing, verification, and deployment.
• Improve workflows, traceability, and collaboration through tooling and automation.
• Work with development teams to establish scalable DevOps practices.
• Support version control strategies and repository management.
• Identify opportunities to reduce development bottlenecks and improve engineering productivity.
• Ensure development systems and environments are secure, patched, and aligned with internal security policies.
• Implement appropriate access controls and secure configurations.
• Identify, document, and remediate risks within development infrastructure and environments.
• Maintain clear technical documentation covering platforms, environments, processes, and configurations.
• Support audit requirements and provide technical evidence where required.
• Contribute to security and compliance initiatives across the wider technology environment.
• Partner with the Head of IT on wider infrastructure, security, and technology improvement projects.
• Support the onboarding and offboarding of engineers from development platforms and environments.
• Provide technical expertise on development tooling and infrastructure issues.
• Where required, assist with complex infrastructure or technology issues affecting engineering delivery.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Software Engineering

Systems Engineering

SDLC

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Linux

Scripting & automation

Development tooling

Infrastructure

Networking fundamentals

Troubleshooting

Communication & documentation

Tools

JIRA

Git

Bitbucket

Confluence

CI/CD systems

Docker

Job description

Ensera Design Bristol seeks a hands-on DevOps Engineer to own development infrastructure, tooling, environments and automation, enabling software and engineering teams to deploy efficiently.

You’ll work with software, embedded, electronics and wider engineering teams to improve CI/CD, workflows, and deployment practices while maintaining core platforms underpinning the software development lifecycle.