Senior DevOps Engineer position – Nationwide, Hybrid (50% office attendance where you live within reasonable commuting distance of an NEC SWS office, SC eligibility required). Join us to shape the future of mission‑critical applications across large national public service systems. This role offers the opportunity to contribute across major national programmes, spanning justice and probation, national licensing, and beyond. It is well suited to an engineer who wants real technical influence, enjoys helping teams succeed, and wants to play a meaningful part in developing the next generation of large‑scale public‑sector services.
What You’ll Do
- Take ownership of cloud infrastructure from provisioning through to day‑to‑day operations, working closely with the Solutions Architect on significant changes.
- Use Infrastructure as Code as the default for everything, maintaining and improving our setup as the infrastructure evolves.
- Keep our CI/CD pipelines fast and reliable. When something breaks or slows down, investigate and fix it properly rather than patching around it.
- Monitor environments to track performance, uptime, and resource usage. Respond to and troubleshoot any issues that might arise.
- Stay curious about what is happening in the industry. If there is a better way to do something, share ideas, run spikes, and make the case. We’re open to changing how we work when there is a good reason.
- Work closely with wider teams to understand needs and provide DevOps solutions.
What We’re Looking For
- Several years running cloud infrastructure in production on AWS. Experience with Azure is a bonus.
- Knowledge of Terraform (Teragrunt is a bonus) beyond the basics. Managed complex estates, written reusable modules, and worked across multiple environments.
- Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and ArgoCD in a production context.
- Ability to write Python or Bash to automate.
- Experience with CI/CD (CircleCI is a bonus) at a level where pipelines were created, not just used. Understand security considerations and deployed from a risk perspective.
Benefits
- Single Private Medical Cover (with the option to select family cover at an additional cost)
- 25 days paid holiday (includes 3 company nominated days) with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days
- 4 x basic salary life assurance cover
- A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions
- A selection of tax‑efficient flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
- The role offers a competitive salary.
Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre‑existing right to work and travel within the EU. Documentary evidence will be required.
All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting and reference checks. Depending on the nature of the role, a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check may also be required.
NECSWS is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities.
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