Lead DevOps & Automation Engineer

Sopra Steria Ltd; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

25 days annual leave

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Flexible benefits fund

Job summary

Sopra Steria Ltd is seeking a Lead DevOps & Automation Engineer to own all DevOps and automation activities. You will lead a team, shape ways of working and drive innovation across secure enterprise environments.

Responsibilities include embedding DevOps practices, mentoring engineers, designing automation solutions and supporting pre-sales with technical requirements. London, Manchester or Gloucestershire locations. Salary £55,000–£75,000, plus car allowance and benefits.

Qualifications

• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, automation pipelines and systems integration.
• Proactive in identifying risks, inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.
• End-to-end ownership of automation initiatives from concept to delivery.
• Production experience with mainly Microsoft, and also Linux technologies in secure, enterprise-scale environments.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to build, develop and embed DevOps practices and ways of working.
• Support growth and development of DevOps Engineers on the team.
• Design and implement solutions leveraging DevOps and automation across the account.
• Develop scripts and configurations supporting infrastructure as code strategy.
• Provide technical support, mentoring and fault resolution during projects.
• Assist sales in pre-sales to define requirements and opportunities.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Ansible

Terraform

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

GitLab

Kubernetes

Tanzu

Job description

We are looking for a Lead DevOps & Automation Engineer to take ownership of all aspects of our DevOps and Automation capabilities. You will lead a team, shape ways of working, and play a key role in driving innovation and continuous improvement. With a strong focus on automation, infrastructure as code and best practice, this role offers the opportunity to work across secure, enterprise-scale environments while supporting the growth and development of others.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading a transformative team to build, develop and embed DevOps practices and ways of working.
• Leading a team of DevOps Engineers, supporting their growth and helping build their skills and competencies.
• Designing and implementing solutions that leverage DevOps and automation capabilities across the account.
• Developing services, scripts and or configurations that support an infrastructure as code strategy.
• Provide technical support, mentoring and fault resolution during project phases.
• Support our sales teams in a pre-sales function to understand user problems and assist with the definition of technical requirements and potential opportunities.

What you’ll bring:

• Has strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, automation pipelines, and systems integration.
• Has proactive approach to identifying risks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Can take end-to-end ownership of automation initiatives from concept to delivery.
• Production experience working with primarily Microsoft but also Linux technologies across secure and highly available enterprise scale environments.
• Strong working knowledge and hands-on experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform etc.
• Competent with multiple scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, Python.

It would be great if you had:

• Strong working knowledge of Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (Iac). Including supporting tooling such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience supporting the design of complex systems and contributing to high quality design documentation.
• Experience building Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Along with supporting tooling such as GitLab.
• Experience using container technologies like Kubernetes or Tanzu.
• Working knowledge of Network Security and TCP/IP networking.
• On-Prem, Hybrid and multi-cloud experience.

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent.
Location: London, Manchester or Gloucestershire.
Security Clearance Level: eDV.
Internal Recruiter: Rebecca.
Salary: £55,000 - £75,000.

• £5,400 car allowance
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days
• private medical
• life assurance
• pension
• generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets