Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Derby (Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite)
Contract Length: October 2026 - May 2027
Security Clearance: BPSS required to start. SC Clearance can be processed concurrently during onboarding.
Rate: Competitive Market Rates
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to support a major enterprise transformation programme focused on infrastructure modernisation, cloud automation, and platform engineering within a complex engineering and manufacturing environment.
This is an opportunity to play a key role in designing, automating, and supporting enterprise-scale cloud and container platforms, driving best practices across infrastructure, deployment automation, security, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead OpenShift Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development and automation initiatives.
- Design and implement Azure platform automation solutions.
- Develop and maintain reusable deployment patterns and standards.
- Own technical governance and best practices across the DevOps function.
- Drive OpenShift architecture, platform automation, and infrastructure delivery.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and deployment orchestration.
- Support Kubernetes and OpenShift platform troubleshooting and optimisation.
- Deliver secure and compliant infrastructure solutions.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability tooling across environments.
- Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and delivery teams to improve deployment efficiency and platform reliability.
- Champion automation-first approaches to infrastructure and application deployment.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong experience administering Microsoft Azure environments.
- Extensive experience with Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) and/or OpenShift Container Platform.
- Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development.
- Strong Kubernetes and OpenShift troubleshooting skills.
- Experience designing and maintaining enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of cloud security and secure delivery practices.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions.
- Ability to define technical standards, governance, and reusable deployment frameworks.
- Experience working within large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.
Desirable Skills
- Experience within highly regulated environments.
- Knowledge of enterprise asset management platforms such as Maximo.
- Experience supporting international deployments and multi-region cloud environments.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps principles and tooling.
- Previous experience working within engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, or defence sectors.
Technologies
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)
- OpenShift Container Platform
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps
- CI/CD Tooling
- Monitoring & Logging Solutions
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- DevSecOps Tooling