Senior DevOps Engineer

Sopra Steria Ltd; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Annual leave

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Sopra Steria Ltd in the United Kingdom is seeking a DevOps Engineer to help keep critical systems running smoothly while improving reliability and security. You will handle incidents, monitor health and coordinate with teams in an ITIL-based environment, with office-based roles in London, Gloucestershire, Manchester or North Yorkshire.

You’ll work across BAU and project activities, taking ownership of incidents, applying automation and scripting to enhance resilience, and building strong

Qualifications

• Experience with virtualised environments and container orchestration.
• Practical knowledge of infrastructure as code approaches and scripting.
• Strong Linux administration and networking fundamentals.
• Familiarity with PKI, certificates and authentication methods.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, triage and resolve incidents and changes promptly.
• Monitor system health and ensure high availability.
• Act as focal point for Elastic-related services and changes.
• Work on BAU and project activities within ITIL-based processes.
• Build effective relationships with customers and suppliers.

Skills

Containerisation

Kubernetes

IaC

Scripting & automation

Networking fundamentals

Linux administration

PKI knowledge

Tools

Kibana

Elasticsearch

Elastic Cloud Enterprise

Ansible

Bash scripting

Terraform

Job description

Are you someone who enjoys keeping critical systems running smoothly while continuously improving how they work? Do you like balancing hands-on technical problem solving with structured ways of working in secure, high-impact environments? You’ll be joining a collaborative DevOps team supporting systems that really matter, where reliability, security and service quality are at the heart of everything we do.

In this role, you’ll work across both business-as-usual support and project activity, helping to ensure platforms remain stable, resilient and fit for purpose. You’ll be trusted to take ownership of incidents, proactively monitor system health and act as a key point of contact for Elastic-related services. You’ll be supported by experienced colleagues, encouraged to share knowledge, and given the space to develop your skills while working within well-established ITIL-based service management processes.
This is an office-based role and can be based in London, Gloucestershire, Manchester or North Yorkshire.

What you'll be doing:

• Investigating, triaging and resolving incidents and stories efficiently and promptly.
• Proactively monitoring and maintaining system health to ensure high service availability.
• Acting as a focal point for Elastic-related problems, issues, changes and queries.
• Working across a mixture of business-as-usual and project-based activities.
• Following ITIL-based service management processes in a disciplined and structured way.
• Developing and maintaining effective relationships with customers and third-party suppliers.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience working with virtualised environments, including containerisation and Kubernetes.
• Practical knowledge of infrastructure as code approaches.
• Experience using scripting and automation to support system reliability and efficiency.
• Working knowledge of computer networking concepts, including routing, firewalls and proxies.
• Experience administering and supporting Linux operating systems.
• Knowledge of digital certificates, authentication methods and certificate authority services.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience with Kibana, Elasticsearch and Elastic Cloud Enterprise.
• Knowledge of Elastic products, including ECE.
• Experience with Ansible and Bash scripting.
• Experience using Terraform.
• Knowledge of PKI.
• Awareness of Apache NiFi.

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent.
Location: Office based – London, Gloucestershire, Manchester or North Yorkshire.
Security Clearance Level: DV.
Internal Recruiter: Rebecca.
Salary: Competitive based on experience
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and 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.

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.