Senior DevOps Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 7 May 2026
LOCATION
Cheltenham
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£76,100 / year
CATEGORY
Software Engineering
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SKILLS

AWS Jenkins Ansible Docker Kubernetes Python CI/CD Linux

FULL DESCRIPTION

Senior DevOps Engineer

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer in Cheltenham, UK. Hybrid working. Salary: £50,700 - £76,100 per year.

Job ID

R10210835

Location

T012 GBR - Cheltenham - Cheltenham House

Your Responsibilities

  • Work as a part of a team to design, build and maintain mission critical systems
  • Automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling
  • Support the Leads to drive decisions to implement best fit tools to solve complex project problems effectively.
  • Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure stability and quality at all stages of the SDLC (software development life cycle).
  • Migration activities with a focus on positioning projects to become cloud ready and implement micro services architecture.
  • Continuously expand your own skills, maintaining and enhancing relevant certifications

Your Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a Computer Science based subject, equivalent qualification or equivalent relevant experience;
  • Amazon Web Services Certified to Practitioner or Associate level with experience of designing, deploying and administering cloud based solutions;
  • Experience of creating/maintaining DevOps CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, Concourse, Maven, Bamboo
  • Experience of automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Python;
  • Experience of administering Virtualised or Containerised systems in VMWare or Docker/Kubernetes/Openshift;
  • Strong collaboration and excellent communication skills verbal and written using collaborating tooling e.g. Atlassian Suite (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket)
  • Strong agile background, keen to learn and succeed across multiple teams and adapt where required.
  • Cloud experience and awareness in AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
  • Platforms Experience of designing, deploying and administering Linux or Unix based solutions would be advantageous e.g. using virtualisation, containerisation, Infrastructure as Code
  • Experience with performance monitoring tools e.g. Elastic Stack, Grafana, CheckMK.

Your Benefits

  • Flexible working schedules - we offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
  • Flexible Benefits Package – choose which NGUKL benefits you want.
  • Employee Incentive Programme – exceptional performance is recognised through our annual incentive programme.
  • Career Development – opportunity for ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities.

About Your Future Team

Joining the Infrastructure Discipline gives a great variety of opportunity, working with the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets to deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems. Our focused and flexible Infrastructure Team consists of industry leading practitioners. Diversity is at the heart of our success.

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