We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep technical expertise and strong leadership skills to independently drive automation, efficiency, and governance within our DevOps and Toolchain squad. This pivotal role supports SREs and development teams in building scalable, secure, and optimised CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate excels in toolchain standardisation, infrastructure improvements, and reducing manual operations, while also mentoring teams and promoting DevOps best practices across the engineering organisation.
What You Will Do
Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Automation CI/CD: Develop and manage automation pipelines for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or similar.
Monitoring Troubleshooting: Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging to ensure the reliability and performance of systems. Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in a timely manner.
Containerization Orchestration: Manage containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes or other similar tools.
Security Compliance: Work closely with the security team to implement security best practices across infrastructure and application layers, including vulnerability assessments, IAM policies, and encryption.
Collaboration: Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure that applications and services are optimized, scalable, and aligned with the company s goals.
Documentation Best Practices: Create and maintain clear documentation of infrastructure, automation processes, and internal tools. Advocate and ensure the use of best practices for code and infrastructure deployment.
Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior DevOps engineers, helping them grow their skills and experience.
Innovation: Keep up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies and apply them to enhance the current DevOps practices and infrastructure.
What You Will Have
Must Have Skill
6 10 years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, or SRE roles.
Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their services.
Proficiency in CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI) and version control (e.g., Git).
Experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, ECS, EKS).
Expertise in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or Go.
Strong understanding of infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK Stack.
Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills.
What We Do For You
Wellbeing focused Our people are our greatest assets, and ensuring everyone feels their best self to come to work is integral.
Annual Leave 20 days of annual leave, plus public holidays
Employee Assistance Programme Free advice, support, and confidential counselling available 24/7.
Personal Growth We re committed to enabling your growth personally and professionally through development programmes.
Life Insurance - 2x annual salary
Personal Accident Insurance - providing cover in the event of serious injury/illness.
Performance Bonus Our Group-wide bonus scheme enables you to reap the rewards of your success.
OneAdvanced is one UKs largest providers of business software and services serving 20,000+ global customers with an annual turnover of 330M+. We manage 1.5 million 111 calls per month, support over 2 million Further Education learners across the UK, handle over 10 million wills, and so much more. Our mission is to power the world of work and, as you can see, our software underpins some of the UKs most critical sectors.
We invest in our brilliant people. They are at the heart of our success as we strive to be a diverse, inclusive and engaging place to work that not only powers the world of work, but empowers the growth, ambitions and talent of our people.
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Job Classification
Industry: Software Product Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA Role Category: DevOps Role: DevOps Engineer Employement Type: Full time