Senior DevOps Engineer

Leonardo UK Ltd; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the design, build and support of CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks. You will own engineering delivery for multiple work packages, plan and estimate work, and report progress.

You will mentor DevOps Engineers, collaborate with project teams and customers, and drive improvements across secure environments to meet strict performance and security standards.

Qualifications

• Strong experience delivering and supporting automation solutions.
• Able to balance hands‑on engineering with leadership responsibilities.
• Own solutions and drive DevOps in technical discussions with stakeholders.
• Experience in secure environments and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, and support of CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and containerised environments.
• Take ownership of engineering delivery for work packages, including planning, estimation, execution and reporting.
• Develop and review automation designs, IaC templates, and technical documentation.
• Integrate DevOps solutions across secure environments, ensuring performance and security requirements.
• Provide mentoring, guidance, and technical leadership to DevOps Engineers and Technicians.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, project teams, and customers to meet requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement and contribute to engineering standards and governance.

Skills

CI/CD concepts

Git version control

Leadership & mentoring

Team collaboration

Scripting: Python/Bash/PowerShell

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Job Description

Your impact

Are you ready to take the next step in your DevOps career and lead the delivery of secure automation solutions? At Leonardo, our Senior DevOps Engineers combine technical expertise with leadership, driving the design, integration, and support of automation frameworks and pipelines that underpin our customers’ missions.

Your work at Leonardo UK will see you take the lead in solving customer problems in an agile, innovative and team-centric manner. The role may involve a blended hybrid working model, with a mixture of working from home and working on site at one of our Leonardo offices to ensure close collaboration with the wider team and with our customers.

What you will do as a Senior DevOps Engineer

• Lead the design, build, and support of CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and containerised environments.

• Take ownership of engineering delivery for one or more work packages, including planning, estimation, execution and reporting.

• Develop and review automation designs, infrastructure as code templates, and technical documentation.

• Integrate DevOps solutions across secure environments, ensuring compliance with performance and security requirements.

• Provide mentoring, guidance, and technical leadership to DevOps Engineers and Technicians.

• Collaborate with stakeholders, project teams, and customers to ensure solutions meet requirements.

• Drive continuous improvement and contribute to engineering standards and governance.

DevOps Continuous Improvement

• Apply DevOps principles of flow, feedback and continuous learning within the team, identifying bottlenecks, unnecessary hand-offs and sources of delay across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Contribute to value-stream and lifecycle improvements, working with engineering, test, security and other disciplines to simplify delivery processes, reduce rework and improve the path from development through to operation.
• Use delivery and operational data to identify improvement opportunities, using measures such as lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate and recovery time to understand where changes can deliver measurable benefit.
• Actively participate in continuous improvement, using retrospectives, operational feedback and lessons learned to propose and implement practical improvements to engineering practices and ways of working.

What you’ll bring

• Strong technical ability with demonstrable experience of delivering and supporting automation solutions.

• Ability to balance hands‑on engineering with technical leadership and mentoring responsibilities.

• Confidence to take ownership of solutions and represent DevOps in technical discussions.

Core areas (must have)

• Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and version control (Git)

• Hands‑on experience with automation tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)

• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

• Knowledge of containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)