Senior DevOps Engineer – Newcastle

CyberNorth; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CyberNorth seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer in Newcastle. You will join a hybrid team delivering environments and tools to support development and testing for client projects. You will configure GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube and testing tools, and automate CI/CD and testing pipelines.

Expect hands-on work with cloud offerings, IaC, containers (Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift), Linux, and scripting. Strong leadership, communication, and mentoring skills are essential in this role.

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud offerings (public/private) and IaC tooling.
• Hands-on in CI/CD and automated testing pipelines.
• Ability to mentor junior developers.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted tooling for pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead a DevOps team to deliver environments and tools for development and testing.
• Set up and configure GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube and testing tools.
• Create automated CI/CD processes and continuous testing.
• Automate serverless integrations between systems via APIs.
• Work with one or more cloud offerings and IaC.
• Implement container orchestration with Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Adopt Agile/Lean methodologies; administer Linux environments.
• Script in Python/Node/PowerShell/Bash; mentor juniors.
• Communicate effectively and lead initiatives with stakeholders.

Skills

DevOps leadership

CI/CD

GitLab

Jenkins

SonarQube

Cloud offerings

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Python

PowerShell

Bash

REST APIs

Scripting

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Terraform

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

ROLE: Senior DevOps Engineer - Newcastle

Hybrid Working: Minimum 3 days per week at our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office.

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK)

Note: The above information relates to a specific client requirement.

As a team:

Our Advanced Technology Centre is a thriving innovation hub where we deliver high-quality, large-scale solutions for some of the UK’s leading public and private sector organisations. From transforming citizen services to driving business innovation, the work we do has a meaningful impact on millions of people — and we’re helping shape the future of technology delivery, AI-driven transformation and digital innovation in the heart of the North East.

You’ll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse perspectives and collaboration. As part of a global network of technology experts, you’ll have the opportunity to work on complex challenges, build future-ready skills in cloud, data and AI — and develop a career without boundaries. If you’re looking for a challenging career in a vibrant and supportive environment, with access to industry-leading training and a strong community, this could be the role for you.

In our team you will learn:

• How to provide solutions to real world problems across a variety of industries.
• How to help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.
• How best to develop your skills and hone your talents within an innovative technology environment.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Work as part of a DevOps team in a technical leadership role to deliver environments and tools to support the development and testing of features by Accenture and Client Teams.
• Setup and configure tools such as Gitlab, Jenkins, SonarQube and performance/security/resilience testing tools.
• Create automated processes for development teams to apply continuous integration and continuous testing approaches.
• Automate the provisioning of serverless integrations between different systems using their APIs.
• Experience with one or more Public/Private cloud offerings
• Experienced in concepts such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, including hands on implementation experience in one or more tools including automated software Quality Assurance (e.g. Gitlab, Jenkins, Codebuild)
• Infrastructure as a code experience (e.g. CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform)
• Experience in container setup, hosting and orchestration tools such as Docker, Docker Compose, RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of Agile and Lean Software delivery methodologies
• Experience in setup and administration of Linux based environments
• Experience in at least 1 common scripting language (e.g. Python, Node.js, Typescript, PowerShell, Bash)
• Ability to mentor and develop junior developers.
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted tooling to support pipeline authoring, monitoring configuration and incident triage.

Set yourself apart:

• Experience implementing system monitoring and alerting using tools (e.g. CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Kibana, Splunk, Prometheus, Dynatrace).
• Experienced in defining and managing roadmaps for the implementation of DevOps in an enterprise IT organisation
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, including Secrets management (e.g. HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
• Design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines supporting frequent, reliable deployments.
• Drive cloud cost optimisation and resource right‑sizing.
• Experience implementing security scanning in CI/CD with SAST and DAST
• Experience with deployment strategies such as Blue/Green or Canary Releases
• Proven track record of applying analytical and creative thought that translate into technical solutions.
• Evidence of debugging and resolving sophisticated technical issues.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, how to consume them and how to invoke / engage with them as part of DevOps pipelines and scripting.