Senior DevOps Engineer

Manchester Digital; Salford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in the UK is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to ensure service reliability and performance. The role involves mentoring engineers, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and driving the adoption of new technologies. The ideal candidate will have experience with automation and infrastructure management, and will play a crucial role in enhancing service deployment and operational efficiency. A passion for learning new technologies is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of service reliability and performance.
• Ability to mentor and lead other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Support teams in effective and secure service deployment.
• Develop and maintain hardened base containers.
• Identify gaps in best practices and recommend improvements.
• Assist engineers with service topology discovery.

Skills

CI/CD

Service Reliability

Infrastructure Management

Automation

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Overview

The Senior DevOps Engineer ensures service reliability and performance by maintaining, designing, and building key components in line with standards, ensuring security and effective monitoring. Collaborating with architects and teams, they clarify design constraints, workforce needs, and cost implications during discovery phases.

They provide guidance on CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) pipelines, enabling efficient and secure deployments for new users, ensuring automation, and streamlined software delivery processes.

They share common responsibilities in automation, reliability, and infrastructure management with other DevOps colleagues.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.

Tools and Technologies we use:

We are keen for Engineers to continue learningnew technologies, we havea large rangein the Home Office including:

Main responsibilities

• Supporting teams in mapping their stories to available platforms, ensuring effective and secure service deployment.
• Developing and maintaining hardened base containers, undertaking skilled platform build and support activities.
• Identifying gaps in best practices, advising teams on delivery risks and recommending improvements.
• Assisting engineers with service topology discovery, helping define quality assurance (QA) and deployment pipelines.
• Driving adoption of new tools and technologies, improving teams’ integration approaches.
• Developing and enhance support processes, ensuring better user experience and operational efficiency.