Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Newport and Cardiff

Hours: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the delivery of secure, scalable, and high‑quality DevOps capabilities across cloud‑native platforms.
• Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, GitHub, and Terraform, including federation patterns such as overrides and config maps.
• Engineer Kubernetes‑native solutions across Public and Private Cloud environments, including workload orchestration, Istio‑based networking, and storage class management.
• Embed security and compliance into automated workflows by integrating tools such as SonarQube and AquaSec, and contribute to strong guardrails and quality‑first engineering practices.
• Automate manual processes and support the development of self‑service capabilities across teams, promoting an automation‑first approach to reduce operational overhead.
• Work effectively with collaborators across complex platforms, communicating clearly with both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Contribute to team planning and support the evolution of DevOps capabilities to meet future business needs.
• Help foster a culture of enablement, where DevOps capabilities are federated and teams can own and operate their delivery pipelines.
• Share knowledge and collaborate within Communities of Practice, supporting continuous improvement through hands‑on learning and experimentation.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering secure, scalable, and high‑quality DevOps capabilities on cloud‑native platforms as part of a multi‑functional engineering team.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, GitHub, and Terraform, including federation patterns such as overrides and config maps.
• Background in engineering Kubernetes‑native solutions in GCP environments, covering workload orchestration, Istio‑based networking, and storage class management.
• Experience working with GCP platform services, including databases such as Spanner, BigQuery, and AlloyDB/CloudSQL, as well as GCS buckets and IAM permissions and controls.
• Experience integrating security and quality tools such as SonarQube and AquaSec into automated pipelines to ensure compliance and maintain strong guardrails.
• Background in automating manual processes to improve efficiency and enable self‑service capabilities, applying an automation‑first approach.
• Experience working with multiple collaborators across complex platforms and communicating effectively across technical and non‑technical groups.
• Experience with Liquibase for database schema management and familiarity with Nexus Repository for artefact management (advantageous).
• Exposure to observability platforms such as Dynatrace (advantageous).
• Experience supporting teams in investigating issues and contributing to remediation plans as part of root‑cause analysis after high‑impact incidents (desirable).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• Annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes, including free shares
• Paid holiday: 30 days, plus bank holidays
• Access to wellbeing initiatives
• Generous parental leave policies
• Flexible working options

Equal Opportunity & Diversity

• We provide reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location, and working patterns.
• As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
• We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes employees from all backgrounds.

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