DevOps Engineer

Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer Permanent | Remote First | London (with once per month travel to client site). Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance is essential About Amber Labs Amber Labs is an established UK technology consultancy helping organisations modernise through cloud, engineering, data, AI and user-centred design. We partner with government departments, enterprise organisations and highly regulated industries to deliver secure, scalable digital services that make a real impact. As our portfolio continues to grow, we're looking for experienced Senior and Lead DevOps Engineers to join our engineering practice and support the delivery of major public sector transformation programmes. This is an opportunity to work on high-profile government projects, building cloud platforms that enable secure, reliable and resilient digital services used across the UK. The Opportunity As a DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, implementing and supporting modern cloud infrastructure while driving automation across the software delivery lifecycle. Working as part of multidisciplinary Agile teams, you'll collaborate with software engineers, solution architects, security specialists, product managers and platform teams to build cloud-native environments using Infrastructure as Code and DevOps best practices. You'll help improve platform reliability, deployment automation, operational resilience and developer productivity across a range of mission-critical digital services. What You'll Be Doing Cloud Infrastructure & Automation Design, implement and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, primarily Terraform.Build secure, highly available and scalable cloud environments aligned with industry best practice.Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and operational workflows.Continuously optimise cloud platforms for performance, resilience and cost efficiency.CI/CD & Platform Engineering Develop, maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support efficient software delivery.Automate build, test and deployment processes across multiple environments.Improve platform observability through monitoring, logging and alerting solutions.Drive continuous improvements in release quality, deployment frequency and engineering efficiency.Containers & Cloud Operations Deploy, manage and support containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.Maintain cloud-native hosting platforms across production and non-production environments.Investigate and resolve infrastructure, platform and deployment issues.Ensure environments meet security, governance and operational compliance requirements.Collaboration & Leadership Work closely with cross-functional delivery teams to design and implement technical solutions.Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to cloud platform strategy.Champion DevOps culture, automation and engineering excellence throughout delivery teams.Senior and Lead DevOps Engineers will also provide technical leadership, mentor colleagues and support the delivery of complex cloud solutions. Skills & Experience We're looking for engineers who have: Active SC Clearance (mandatory).Strong commercial experience delivering DevOps solutions within AWS environments.Hands-on knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda and ECS/EKS.Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.Proven experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience within production environments.Scripting skills using Python and/or Bash.Solid understanding of Git version control.Experience working within Agile, multidisciplinary engineering teams.Excellent troubleshooting, communication and stakeholder engagement skills. Why Join Amber Labs? At Amber Labs, you'll work on meaningful projects that shape the future of public sector digital services while continuing to develop your technical expertise. Our benefits include: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.Private medical cover through Bupa.Hybrid working with access to our London Liverpool Street office.Dedicated personal learning and development budget.Perkbox membership with discounts across retail, travel, dining and wellbeing.Electric Vehicle Scheme after one year of service.Company pension contribution.Employee referral programme with rewards of up to £3,000.Regular social events and opportunities to connect with colleagues.The chance to join a rapidly expanding consultancy where your ideas and technical expertise will directly influence our continued growth. If you're passionate about AWS, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, CI/CD automation and delivering secure cloud solutions, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help us build the next generation of secure digital services.