DevOps Engineer
Salary: From £65,900 plus Bonus and benefits. Contract type: Permanent. Shift pattern: Full‑time – 37.5 hours per week. Location: Hybrid/ Staines (TW18 3DZ) – ½ days in office per week.
Job Overview
Join our DevOps Support team and play a key role in driving innovation at Bupa. You’ll champion DevOps delivery, own and enhance reusable pipelines, and work closely with multiple delivery teams to provide infrastructure and cloud services using Terraform and automation. You’ll offer expert technical support to your business unit, ensuring incidents and problems are resolved in line with agreed SLAs and OLAs. From code deployments to infrastructure rebuilds across production and non‑production environments, you’ll keep things running smoothly. As a technical focal point during major incidents, you’ll bring clarity and solutions when it matters most.
Key Responsibilities
* Manage infrastructure hosted on Azure, GCP and AWS cloud platforms.
* Manage and support Web Application Firewall configuration.
* Improve security and remediate vulnerabilities across cloud platforms, web applications and WAF technologies.
* Ensure that the cloud‑hosted infrastructure and services adhere to agreed SLA and OLA.
* Manage tools and processes for CI/CD.
* Manage automation processes.
* Provide support services to deliver the required system availability, reliability and performance necessary to underpin business operations.
* Provide 2nd line application support that includes “Fix on Fail”, management of defects and change requests, support requests, proactive performance monitoring and management.
Key Skills & Qualifications
* Significant experience in technology development and management with a strong focus on value and service.
* Strong technical background, understanding the challenges of managing, maintaining and delivering IT services.
* Strong communication and influencing abilities; able to engage with senior stakeholders internally and with supplier organisations.
* Ability to understand the challenges and dependencies of peers.
* Experienced in managing and supporting web and API environments.
* Experienced in working with CDN and WAF technologies such as Cloudflare and Akamai.
* Experience in building, maintaining and supporting high‑availability environments.
* Proven experience working in a DevOps/SRE team or a similar multi‑skilled, technically demanding environment.
* Proficiency or familiarity with CI/CD tools, especially Azure DevOps and/or GitHub.
* Competence in Azure, GCP and multi‑cloud disciplines, including a solid understanding of cloud networking and cloud security principles.
* Hands‑on experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, Docker, Kubernetes, PowerShell, Python or other scripting languages.
* Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL or other database technologies.
* Knowledge of content management systems (CMS) – preferably Sitecore and/or Silverstripe.
Benefits
* 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind.
* Enhanced pension plan and life insurance.
* Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available.
* Various other benefits and online discounts.
EEO Statement
Bupa is a Level2 Disability Confident Employer. We aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role and will make reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process for anyone that needs them.
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