Senior DevOps Engineer

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 on 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 Code<br />Design platform services for deployment, operation and monitoring of containerised products<br />Build new infrastructure (not just maintain existing environments)<br />Work in public/private cloud, primarily AWS<br />Support Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), mentor junior team members, manage customer relationships<br />What we're looking for Strong AWS experience essential (AWS-focused, not Azure)<br />Solid grounding in security principles and secure-by-design practices<br />Experience with CI/CD, containerisation, IaC, testing frameworks<br />Comfortable leading design work and mentoring early-career engineers<br />Strong stakeholder management skills<br />Benefits 25 days holiday plus bank holidays<br />Group pension scheme with matched employer contributions<br />Private health insurance after probation, with option to add family cover<br />Life insurance and personal accident cover<br />Health &amp; wellbeing cash plan (dental, optical, physio and more)<br />Employee assistance programme<br />Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, and interest-free PC loan<br />Stock purchase plan with company top-up<br />Five fully paid training days a year and clear routes for career progressionThe role is home based with adhoc travel to London. 2 stage interview happening asap