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 • Design platform services for deployment, operation and monitoring of containerised products • Build new infrastructure (not just maintain existing environments) • Work in public/private cloud, primarily AWS • Support 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 practices • Experience with CI/CD, containerisation, IaC, testing frameworks • Comfortable leading design work and mentoring early-career engineers • Strong stakeholder management skills Benefits • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays • Group pension scheme with matched employer contributions • Private health insurance after probation, with option to add family cover • Life insurance and personal accident cover • Health & wellbeing cash plan (dental, optical, physio and more) • Employee assistance programme • Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, and interest-free PC loan • Stock purchase plan with company top-up • Five 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.