DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Location:

Colchester, Essex (Hybrid 3 days per week in the office)

Overview

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer to join a growing technology organisation whose products support public safety, compliance, and regulatory services. This is an opportunity to work on meaningful technology that has real-world impact, while helping engineering teams deliver software faster, more reliably, and at scale.

In this role, you’ll design, build, and maintain an internal developer platform and cloud infrastructure that enables teams to ship high-quality software with confidence.

What You’ll Be Doing

Designing and evolving self-service tooling, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud environments (Azure)

Implementing Infrastructure as Code and GitOps workflows using tools such as Terraform and Ansible

Creating “golden paths” and paved roads to reduce cognitive load for developers

Ensuring platform security, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency

Collaborating with SRE, security, and application teams to define standards and best practices

Automating repetitive tasks and reducing operational toil through tooling and runbooks

Driving adoption of modern engineering practices, including observability, progressive delivery, and resilience testing

What We’re Looking For

You’ll be someone who:

Is empathetic towards developers and focused on reducing friction

Is comfortable working with ambiguity and owning initiatives end-to-end

Thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment

Enjoys learning, sharing knowledge, and improving ways of working

Has strong communication skills and a clear sense of ownership

Experience \& Skills

3+ years’ experience in DevOps or Platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles

Proven experience building and scaling production-grade systems

Experience with Kubernetes, pipelines, Terraform, Azure and Ansible

Background working in agile engineering teams with rapid delivery cycles

Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems, with a focus on performance and cost optimisation

What’s On Offer

Competitive benefits package, the chance to work with some exceptional people and teams on really exciting real world changing work.