Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer Location: Derby (Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite) Contract Length: October 2026 - May 2027 Security Clearance: BPSS required to start. SC Clearance can be processed concurrently during onboarding. Rate: Competitive Market Rates

Key Responsibilities

• Lead OpenShift Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development and automation initiatives.
• Design and implement Azure platform automation solutions.
• Develop and maintain reusable deployment patterns and standards.
• Own technical governance and best practices across the DevOps function.
• Drive OpenShift architecture, platform automation, and infrastructure delivery.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and deployment orchestration.
• Support Kubernetes and OpenShift platform troubleshooting and optimisation.
• Deliver secure and compliant infrastructure solutions.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability tooling across environments.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and delivery teams to improve deployment efficiency and platform reliability.
• Champion automation-first approaches to infrastructure and application deployment.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience administering Microsoft Azure environments.
• Extensive experience with Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) and/or OpenShift Container Platform .
• Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development.
• Strong Kubernetes and OpenShift troubleshooting skills.
• Experience designing and maintaining enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines .
• Strong understanding of cloud security and secure delivery practices.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions.
• Ability to define technical standards, governance, and reusable deployment frameworks.
• Experience working within large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.

Desirable Skills

• Experience within highly regulated environments.
• Knowledge of enterprise asset management platforms such as Maximo .
• Experience supporting international deployments and multi-region cloud environments.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps principles and tooling.
• Previous experience working within engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, or defence sectors.

Technologies

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)
• OpenShift Container Platform
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps
• CI/CD Tooling
• Monitoring & Logging Solutions
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• DevSecOps Tooling