Overview
Lead DevOps & Automation Engineer to own DevOps and Automation capabilities. Lead a team, shape ways of working, and drive innovation and continuous improvement. Focus on automation, infrastructure as code, and best practices across secure, enterprise-scale environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead a transformative team to build, develop and embed DevOps practices and ways of working.
- Lead a team of DevOps Engineers, support growth and build skills and competencies.
- Design and implement solutions leveraging DevOps and automation capabilities across the account.
- Develop services, scripts and configurations that support an infrastructure as code strategy.
- Provide technical support, mentoring and fault resolution during project phases.
- Support our sales teams in a pre-sales function to understand user problems and assist with the definition of technical requirements and potential opportunities.
What you’ll bring
- Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, automation pipelines, and systems integration.
- Proactive approach to identifying risks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
- Ability to take end-to-end ownership of automation initiatives from concept to delivery.
- Production experience with Microsoft and Linux technologies across secure and highly available enterprise-scale environments.
- Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform.
- Proficient with multiple scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, Python.
Desirable skills
- Strong working knowledge of Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including Ansible and Terraform.
- Experience supporting the design of complex systems and contributing to high-quality design documentation.
- Experience building Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines with tooling such as GitLab.
- Experience using container technologies like Kubernetes or Tanzu.
- Working knowledge of Network Security and TCP/IP networking.
- On-Prem, Hybrid and multi-cloud experience.
Additional information
Location: London, Manchester or Gloucestershire. Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent. Security Clearance Level: eDV. Salary: £55,000 – £75,000.
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and a generous flexible benefits fund. We offer flexible working arrangements and encourage applicants who require flexibility to apply.
About Sopra Steria
Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do supports national security goals, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We value professional development, coaching and knowledge sharing, and strive for outstanding customer satisfaction in safety- and security-critical markets.
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