Summary
Take a leading technical role in a small, agile delivery team working on highly secure and technically challenging projects. You will contribute across architecture, infrastructure build and operations while helping shape customer-facing delivery. The role is predominantly remote and offers strong professional development and career progression.
Highlights
Predominantly home-based role with occasional travel, substantial training investment, career progression, challenging technical projects, and an individual-contributor position with significant ownership.
Description
Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Predominantly home-based, with occasional travel to client sites in London.
Ideally based near Bristol, Cheltenham, Manchester
Salary: £60,000–£80,000 (individual contributor role, not Team Lead)
Clearance: SC cleared or clearable
About the client
SR2 is supporting one of our long standing consultancy clients who are on a mission to make the UK the safest place to work online.
They deliver highly secure, technically challenging projects for UK Government clients.
They invest heavily in their people - regular team socials, an annual company trip, five fully paid training days a year, and genuine career progression.
The role
You'll join a small, fast-paced agile delivery team, taking a leading role across the project lifecycle - from architecture and build through to managing customer relationships.
There's a big, brand-new AI project on offer right now, genuinely exciting stuff, but very confidential at this stage.
It involves taking a newly designed AI system and implementing/scaling it into a live working environment.
It requires standard security clearance so ideally you will be cleared already or happy to go through clearance.
What you'll do
Build and operate CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as CodeDesign platform services for deployment, operation and monitoring of containerised productsBuild new infrastructure (not just maintain existing environments)Work in public/private cloud, primarily AWSSupport Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), mentor junior team members, manage customer relationships
What we're looking for
Strong AWS experience essential (AWS-focused, not Azure)Solid grounding in security principles and secure-by-design practicesExperience with CI/CD, containerisation, IaC, testing frameworksComfortable leading design work and mentoring early-career engineersStrong stakeholder management skills
Benefits
25 days holiday plus bank holidaysGroup pension scheme with matched employer contributionsPrivate health insurance after probation, with option to add family coverLife insurance and personal accident coverHealth & wellbeing cash plan (dental, optical, physio and more)Employee assistance programmeCycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, and interest-free PC loanStock purchase plan with company top-upFive fully paid training days a year and clear routes for career progression
The role is home based with adhoc travel to London.
2 stage interview happening asap.
