DV-Clear DevOps Engineer: Kubernetes & IaC Expert

PentenAmio; Tewkesbury; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Insurance 4x Salary

Early Friday finish

9-day fortnight

Private Health

EV Salary Sacrifice

Pension 10% matched

25 days holiday

Maternity/Paternity Leave

On-site parking

Casual dress

Free fruit

Job summary

PentenAmio is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer in the UK to advance our infrastructure with IaC, automation, and modern DevOps practices. You will work across AWS, on-prem, and security-focused environments, building CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration with Kubernetes. A UK DV clearance and citizenship are required.

We offer a strong benefits package and career progression. Join a security-focused team delivering secure, air-gapped environments and scaling infrastructure across

Qualifications

• Strong practical experience with Terraform and Ansible, including IaC and configuration management.
• Experience deploying, configuring and troubleshooting Kubernetes and Docker environments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, including EC2, S3, IAM, Systems Manager, CloudWatch and AWS networking.
• Experience building and supporting Linux-based on-premises infrastructure within virtualised environments.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, using tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Strong scripting skills using Bash and Python, alongside good Git/version control practices.
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Good understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, TCP/IP, routing, VLANs and firewalls.
• Experience applying security best practices, including system hardening, patching and least-privilege access.
• A proactive, collaborative approach with strong problem-solving, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
• Bring existing infrastructure under code and version control, creating consistent and repeatable environments.
• Deploy, configure and support Kubernetes clusters and containerised workloads across AWS and on-premises environments.
• Design and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and service deployments.
• Develop Bash and Python scripts and tooling to automate operational tasks and improve service delivery.
• Implement monitoring, alerting and dashboards using Prometheus, Grafana and centralised logging solutions.
• Support AWS and on-premises infrastructure, including Linux, networking, virtualisation, storage and associated services.
• Build and support deployment processes for secure and air-gapped environments.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and platform incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes.
• Promote DevOps practices across the team, sharing knowledge and supporting colleagues in adopting automation, IaC and version control.

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Linux

CI/CD

Bash

Python

Prometheus

Grafana

Networking

Security

Git

IaC

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

CircleCI

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

PentenAmio is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer in the UK to advance our infrastructure with IaC, automation, and modern DevOps practices. You will work across AWS, on-prem, and security-focused environments, building CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration with Kubernetes. A UK DV clearance and citizenship are required.

We offer a strong benefits package and career progression. Join a security-focused team delivering secure, air-gapped environments and scaling infrastructure across