Senior DevOps Engineer

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions; Abingdon; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension with employer contribution

Private healthcare

Generous holiday allowance

Hybrid working

Job summary

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions in Oxfordshire is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to shape our cloud platform and drive production readiness.

You will own multi-account AWS environments, Kubernetes and Terraform, plus CI/CD pipelines, with hybrid working (2 days per week in the office) and a salary of £85,000–£110,000 DOE.

Join a growing UK tech company building AI-led products in high-stakes sectors and influence tooling, standards and priorities.

Qualifications

• Hands-on DevOps or SRE background with AWS expertise.
• Experience designing secure multi-account AWS environments.
• Knowledge of container platforms and GitOps deployments.
• Experience with security reviews and compliance basics.

Responsibilities

• Designing and running secure multi-account AWS environments defined as code.
• Managing container platforms with automated GitOps deployments.
• Leading security reviews and hardening across the estate.
• Owning monitoring, alerting and resilience including backups.
• Keeping cloud spend under control and supporting audits.
• Handling incidents and coaching developers on secure delivery.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Bash

Tools

Docker

Helm

GitOps tooling

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer
AWS / Kubernetes / Terraform / CI/CD / Infrastructure as Code
Oxfordshire (Hybrid - 2 days a week in the office)
£85,000 - £110,000 DOE

Want to be the senior voice on infrastructure, with real say over how software reaches production?

This Senior DevOps Engineer role is with a growing UK technology company building AI-led products for customers who work in high-stakes sectors. You'll be the most experienced platform engineer in a small team, with direct influence over the tools, standards and priorities the engineering group works to.

It's a permanent role in Oxfordshire, hybrid, with 2 days a week in the office.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and running secure multi-account AWS environments, defined entirely as code
• Managing container platforms in the cloud and on-premises, with automated GitOps-style deployments
• Leading security reviews and hardening across the estate
• Owning monitoring, alerting and resilience, including regular backup and recovery testing
• Keeping cloud spend and capacity under control, and supporting compliance audits
• Handling incidents and coaching developers on secure delivery

What You'll Bring

• A strong DevOps or SRE background, with recent hands-on AWS experience
• Deep Kubernetes experience, ideally including on-premises clusters, plus Helm Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and GitOps tooling, with Docker and Linux
• Experience managing artifact repositories and integrating single sign-on
• Scripting in Bash and Python or Go, and security testing built into pipelines

Desirable: MLOps experience, Prometheus-style observability, security frameworks such as ISO 27001, active SC clearance

What's On Offer

• Pension with employer contribution
• Private healthcare
• Generous holiday allowance
• Hybrid working, 2 days a week in the office

Please note: You must be eligible for UK security clearance (BPSS and SC), which requires a UK passport and 5 years of continuous UK residency. Clearance can be sponsored for the right candidate.

This role may suit candidates who have held roles including: Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Platform Engineer, Senior AWS Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer