Senior DevOps Engineer

Insight International (UK) Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight International (UK) Ltd in Manchester seeks a senior cloud delivery engineer with extensive Kubernetes experience, including OpenShift, GKE, and strong Terraform automation. The role emphasizes CI/CD pipelines, Backstage, and platform self-service for fast, repeatable deployments.

You will drive observability with Dynatrace, implement SRE practices, and uphold security through Vault and IAM controls while collaborating on Istio networking and Git-based workflows.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering and delivery.
• Hands-on Kubernetes engineering with GKE; OpenShift experience required.
• Google Cloud Platform experience preferred; Terraform and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling, Jenkins, and pipeline design.
• Backstage and Internal Developer Platform concepts.
• Observability and SRE practices with Dynatrace: telemetry, logs, and SLIs/SLOs.
• Security controls using Vault, IAM, and secure configuration.
• Networking with Istio, ingress/egress, and service connectivity.

Skills

Kubernetes engineering

CI/CD

Site reliability engineering

Automation scripting

Tools

OpenShift

Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

Dynatrace

Backstage

Istio

Jenkins

Vault

GitHub

Git

Job description

Must have: 7+ Years of experience, Google Cloud, Terraform, Dynatrace/Telemetry, Kubernetes

Essential skills and experience

Container platforms

Strong hands-on Kubernetes engineering; GKE preferred. OpenShift experience is required.

Google Cloud Platform experience preferred; strong Terraform and reusable infrastructure automation.

Delivery engineering

Harness CI/CD and Jenkins; pipeline design, automation, release controls and deployment patterns.

Backstage and Internal Developer Platform concepts, including self-service and golden paths.

Observability & SRE

Dynatrace; metrics, telemetry, logs, traces, alerting, SLI/SLO practices and runbook automation.

Security & controls

HashiCorp Vault, certificate management, IAM/least privilege, platform controls and secure configuration.

Networking

Istio Service Mesh, ingress/egress, service connectivity, traffic management and network security concepts.

GitHub / Git, automation-first mindset, scripting, troubleshooting and production support.