DevOps Engineer
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Brackley, UK
The Engineering Software team develops and maintains the systems that power simulation, analysis, and day-to-day operations for our Engineering and Performance groups. We're looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer to help strengthen how these systems are built, deployed, and operated across development, testing, and production environments.
In this role, you'll work within an established technical landscape, contributing to improvements in consistency, reliability, and scalability. You'll collaborate closely with the IT Platform team to ensure our engineering environments align with infrastructure, security, and operational standards, while helping to streamline workflows for engineers who rely on these systems every day.
This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys improving platforms that underpin critical engineering work; who values clear, maintainable solutions over quick fixes; who prefers pragmatic automation to unnecessary complexity; and who thrives in a collaborative, engineering-focused environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines
Improve build, versioning, and release workflows across projects
Support structured artifact management
Implement and maintain processes governing the use of Kubernetes-based deployment environments
Develop and maintain Kubernetes manifest templates to standardise deployments
Implement and maintain GitOps workflows
Implement and maintain processes governing virtual machine configuration
Support governance and consistency across development and testing environments, including:
Controlled promotion between dev, test, and production
Repeatable provisioning and configuration management
Clear change and rollback processes
Work collaboratively with the IT Platform team on infrastructure alignment, access control, and compliance considerations
Identify practical improvements to automation, observability, and deployment reliability
Advocate "everything as code" principles and DevOps culture and practices
Candidate Profile:
Demonstrable experience building and maintaining Azure DevOps pipelines
Working knowledge of Kubernetes in test and production environments
Experience deploying containerised applications using Helm
Familiarity with GitOps principles and tools such as ArgoCD
Experience managing multiple deployment environments
Understanding of Artifactory artifact repositories
Proven troubleshooting and problem-solving capability
Comfort working across software and infrastructure boundaries
About Us:
At the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, a group of passionate and determined people work to design, develop, manufacture and race the cars with the aim of fighting for world championships each and every year.
Whether working in our Operations, Technical, Race or Business Support functions, we are all in and aspire to build the greatest team in the history of our sport.
Every individual plays their part. No stone is left unturned in the chase for every tenth of a second. The history of our sport is long and rich, and we are continuing our journey with renewed effort year on year. Record books remember the names of a few, but history is written by the many.
Benefits:
Our riverside campus is powered by 100% renewably sourced energy and features an on-site gym and exercise studio, subsidised restaurant and on-site parking with EV chargers available.
We offer a competitive and attractive package of benefits including a generous bonus scheme, Mercedes car lease scheme, private medical cover, life assurance and 25 days holiday. We pride ourselves on our family-friendly environment and employee well-being programmes.
Why Us:
We believe that building a more inclusive and diverse culture helps us go faster and further.
From recruitment and building our future talent pipeline to internal communications and leadership training, we're building a team where everyone can thrive and contribute to our shared success.
Our aim is to attract, develop and retain exceptional people from all backgrounds, creating a workplace where all team members feel respected, supported and able to fulfil their potential. xxuwjjq
Your Application:
We will ask you to complete a questionnaire as well as submitting a cover letter and CV. Please upload your cover letter and CV as one single PDF file.