Senior Rail Systems Engineer - DevOps & CI/CD

SIEMENS; Ashby-de-la-Zouch; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Mental health support

Subsidised gym membership

Life Assurance

Job summary

Siemens Mobility Limited is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer for its CIS business within Rail Infrastructure. In Ashby-de-la-Zouch or Chippenham, you will lead Engineering DevOps across portfolios, delivering automated tooling to support safe, reliable software and hardware delivery in rail environments.

You will implement IaC, ensure traceability and auditability, and drive maturity of DevOps practices while aligning with safety and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience in (non-software centric) DevOps or systems/tooling engineering roles within rail and transportation, supporting engineering delivery.
• CI/CD tooling with controlled release and approval mechanisms.
• Management of tooling in an IEC 62443 / NIS2 compliant environment.
• Operational Technology in safety-related and safety-critical environments.
• Experience with SCADA, control and automation systems, signalling, and/or operational technology (desirable).
• Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.

Responsibilities

• Leading the design, implementation, and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines for systems supporting SIL and non-SIL safety-related applications, including gated approvals and auditable controls.
• Implementing “Infrastructure as Code” to ensure deterministic, secure, repeatable environments that support and provide safety evidence and configuration control.
• Ensuring DevOps tooling and processes support robust traceability, version control, and auditability aided by a robust change-control triage and deployment process.
• Providing engineering lifecycle evidence to support safety cases, assurance activities, and independent assessment.
• Providing portfolio-level leadership across engineering delivery teams to enable predictable, controlled releases into operational environments and improve consistency of tooling adoption across programmes.
• Driving Engineering DevOps maturity through a prioritised roadmap that balances operational need, portfolio risk, assurance requirements and long-term business value.

Skills

CI/CD tooling

DevOps leadership

Infrastructure as Code

Change control

Safety focus

Tools

SCADA systems

IEC 62443 compliance tooling

NIS2 compliance environment

Job description

Siemens Mobility Limited is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer for its CIS business within Rail Infrastructure. In Ashby-de-la-Zouch or Chippenham, you will lead Engineering DevOps across portfolios, delivering automated tooling to support safe, reliable software and hardware delivery in rail environments.

You will implement IaC, ensure traceability and auditability, and drive maturity of DevOps practices while aligning with safety and regulatory requirements.