Hybrid Cloud DevOps Engineer - CI/CD & IaC Expert

NPAworldwide; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

Learning and development budget

Private healthcare

Matched pension contributions

Monthly socials and quarterly events

Career progression opportunities

Job summary

NPAworldwide partners with a growing, mission-led technology consultancy delivering secure, modern software solutions to the UK Government and Defence sector. As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll join small, agile teams to design, build, and support secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment platforms.

You will automate CI/CD pipelines, implement IaC, and collaborate with engineers, architects, and delivery teams to improve automation, security, and platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience building, deploying, and supporting secure production systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation.
• Knowledge of containers, orchestration, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience working across the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Comfortable working in Agile environments using Scrum or Kanban.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment platforms.
• Develop and manage automated CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery.
• Build and operate shared platform services for deployment, monitoring, observability, and operational support.
• Create and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Deploy, manage, and optimise solutions across AWS, Azure, and private cloud environments.
• Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and delivery teams to improve automation, security, and platform reliability.
• Monitor system health, performance, and availability while proactively identifying opportunities for optimisation.
• Contribute to DevOps best practices, continuous improvement initiatives, and engineering standards.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Containers & orchestration

SDLC familiarity

Agile methodologies

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Packer

Vault

Prometheus

Grafana

Elastic Stack

Artifactory

Nexus Repository

Job description

NPAworldwide partners with a growing, mission-led technology consultancy delivering secure, modern software solutions to the UK Government and Defence sector. As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll join small, agile teams to design, build, and support secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment platforms.

You will automate CI/CD pipelines, implement IaC, and collaborate with engineers, architects, and delivery teams to improve automation, security, and platform reliability.