Principal Rail Systems DevOps Engineer

SIEMENS; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing benefits

Pension & Life Assurance

Family & carer support

Personal growth opportunities

Job summary

Siemens Mobility Limited is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer for our CIS business within Rail Infrastructure. The role focuses on engineering DevOps, automation, and tooling to support safe, reliable rail systems.

Base location can be Ashby-de-la-Zouch or Chippenham, with a strong emphasis on CI/CD and governance across portfolios. You will drive the Engineering DevOps roadmap, ensure traceability, and enable controlled releases in regulated environments to deliver tangible improvements in

Qualifications

• Experience in (non-software centric) DevOps or systems/tooling engineering roles within rail and transportation, supporting engineering delivery.
• CI/CD tooling with controlled release and approval mechanisms
• Management of tooling in an IEC 62443 / NIS2 compliant environment
• Operational Technology in safety-related and safety-critical environments
• Experience with SCADA, control and automation systems, signalling, and/or operational technology (desirable)
• Infrastructure as Code and configuration management

Responsibilities

• Leading the design, implementation, and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines for systems supporting SIL and non-SIL safety-related applications, including gated approvals and auditable controls
• Implementing “Infrastructure as Code” to ensure deterministic, secure, repeatable environments that support and provide safety evidence and configuration control
• Ensuring DevOps tooling and processes support robust traceability, version control, and auditability aided by a robust change-control triage and deployment process
• Providing engineering lifecycle evidence to support safety cases, assurance activities, and independent assessment
• Providing portfolio-level leadership across engineering delivery teams to enable predictable, controlled releases into operational environments and improve consistency of tooling adoption across programmes
• Driving Engineering DevOps maturity through a prioritised roadmap that balances operational need, portfolio risk, assurance requirements and long-term business value

Skills

CI/CD tooling

Engineering DevOps

Safety-critical systems

Job description

Siemens Mobility Limited is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer for our CIS business within Rail Infrastructure. The role focuses on engineering DevOps, automation, and tooling to support safe, reliable rail systems.

Base location can be Ashby-de-la-Zouch or Chippenham, with a strong emphasis on CI/CD and governance across portfolios. You will drive the Engineering DevOps roadmap, ensure traceability, and enable controlled releases in regulated environments to deliver tangible improvements in