Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Active MoD/UKSV DV Mandatory

£750/day Inside IR-35 initially until the end of April 2027

Central London - 3 days/week

We are supporting a major programme within the UK Defence sector and are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to play a key role in the design, build and operation of secure, cloud-native platforms on AWS.

Working within a highly skilled engineering environment, you will help drive DevOps best practice, automate infrastructure and deployment pipelines, and support the delivery of critical services in a complex and security-conscious setting. This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer who can combine strong technical capability with leadership, mentoring and stakeholder engagement skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable AWS cloud infrastructure. • Develop and enhance Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform. • Build, optimise and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable delivery. • Champion DevOps culture, automation and engineering best practice across delivery teams. • Improve platform resilience, observability, security and operational performance. • Work closely with software engineers, architects and senior stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities. • Support containerised workloads and cloud-native deployments. • Lead technical discussions, provide guidance to engineers and contribute to strategic decisions around platform engineering.

Required Skills & Experience

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