Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & Security

Oxford Dynamics; Harwell; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible & Hybrid Working

Company Pension

Private Healthcare

29 Days Holiday

Job summary

Oxford Dynamics in the Greater Oxford Area seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to own cloud infrastructure end-to-end with a strong AWS/Kubernetes and CI/CD focus. You will design, implement and audit scalable platforms, automate delivery pipelines and drive cost-efficient, secure operations across multi-account environments while ensuring compliance with industry standards and security best practices.

Join a mission-driven team building frontier AI systems for high-stakes environments, with a

Qualifications

• Proven experience in DevOps / SRE, with recent focus on AWS cloud engineering.
• Expert in AWS core services and security tooling.
• Strong Kubernetes administration and Helm packaging.
• Solid CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
• Scripting in Bash and Python or Go for automation.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end cloud ownership – architect, implement and maintain multi-account, multi-region environments using IaC (Terraform, Helm).
• Platform reliability, automation and cost optimisation across distributed systems.
• Security hardening and governance to meet compliance requirements.
• SRE & monitoring to uphold SLAs and observability.
• Mentor developers, drive DevSecOps best practices and audits.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

Security

SRE

IaC

Docker

Tools

Helm

EKS/OpenShift

GuardDuty

CloudWatch

Terraform Cloud

Nexus

Python

Bash

Go

Job description

Oxford Dynamics in the Greater Oxford Area seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to own cloud infrastructure end-to-end with a strong AWS/Kubernetes and CI/CD focus. You will design, implement and audit scalable platforms, automate delivery pipelines and drive cost-efficient, secure operations across multi-account environments while ensuring compliance with industry standards and security best practices.

Join a mission-driven team building frontier AI systems for high-stakes environments, with a