Hybrid (London) with ad-hoc travel to client sites Active SC Clearance Required
About Amber Labs
Amber Labs is a fast-growing UK technology consultancy delivering digital transformation across enterprise, government and regulated sectors. We specialise in cloud, data, software engineering, user‑centred design and AI, helping organisations deliver better services through modern technology and agile ways of working.
We’re currently supporting the delivery of critical digital services within a major UK government programme and are looking for experienced DevOps Engineers to join our growing engineering teams.
This role will support large-scale transformation initiatives within a nationally significant public sector environment, helping build secure, scalable cloud platforms that underpin the delivery of resilient, high‑performing digital services.
The Role
As a DevOps Engineer, you will design, build and optimise secure cloud infrastructure, automation and deployment pipelines that enable the delivery of resilient, high‑performing digital services. Working within multidisciplinary agile teams, you’ll collaborate closely with software engineers, architects, security specialists, product teams and platform engineers to deliver cloud‑native solutions using infrastructure as code and modern DevOps practices. You’ll play a key role in improving automation, deployment reliability, platform performance and operational resilience across government services. The role may support a range of digital transformation initiatives, including customer‑facing services, internal platforms and mission‑critical public sector systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, primarily Terraform.
- Develop secure, scalable and resilient cloud environments aligned with best practice.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and operational processes.
- Optimise cloud environments for performance, availability and cost efficiency.
- Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration and automated application deployment, testing and release processes.
- Support platform reliability through monitoring, logging and alerting.
- Drive improvements to deployment speed, stability and developer experience.
Containerisation & Cloud Operations
- Deploy and manage containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Support cloud‑native application hosting and orchestration.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment and platform issues across environments.
- Ensure platforms meet security, compliance and operational requirements.
Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
- Work closely with developers, architects, security engineers and delivery teams.
- Contribute to technical design discussions and cloud architecture decisions.
- Promote DevOps culture, automation and engineering best practice across delivery teams.
- For Senior DevOps Engineers, provide technical leadership and mentor engineers.
Qualifications
- Proven experience delivering DevOps engineering within AWS cloud environments.
- Strong knowledge of AWS core services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda and ECS/EKS.
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
- Scripting experience using Python and/or Bash.
- Strong knowledge of Git version control.
- Experience working within agile multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent problem‑solving and communication skills.
What We Offer
- 25 days annual leave plus public holidays.
- Private medical insurance with Bupa.
- Remote‑first working, with access to our Liverpool Street office when you want to visit.
- Personal training budget to support your professional development.
- Perkbox membership, with access to discounts across retail, travel, dining, wellness and entertainment.
- Electric Vehicle Scheme after one year of service.
- Regular team socials and opportunities to connect across the business.
- Referral scheme, offering up to £3,000 for successful hires.
- The opportunity to join a growing consultancy early and genuinely influence its direction and success.
Amber Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, regardless of background, identity or experience.
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