About The Role
Hippo Digital is recruiting for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our growing consultancy. This pivotal role within our Engineering function leads the charge in delivering value and driving automation for our diverse Public and Private Sector clients. You will work alongside like‑minded, talented engineers, shaping robust, cloud‑native systems that our customers can rely on.
Hippo’s Senior Engineers are experts in their field. As a Senior Consultant, you will provide technical expertise both internally and to our clients, support technical deliverables, maintain client relationships, and be passionate about developing yourself and others.
Our solutions empower our customers to build and support secure, scalable, and well‑engineered systems. We leverage deep data insights and continuous innovation to deliver platforms that allow our customers to get the most from their digital services. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be a key architect and implementer in this mission. We are looking for candidates who are looking for growth at the Senior level; therefore, the advertised salary band represents the entry point for this level, allowing for clear progression within the role.
Your Role in a Nutshell
* Demonstrate technical expertise within the Hippo engineering community to ensure user‑centred, automated infrastructure is developed based on business requirements and best practices.
* Champion Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) and automation in every aspect of the solution, ensuring repeatable and reliable deployments.
* Operate in a hands‑on environment, working with various AWS services, platforms, and frameworks.
* Coach and encourage the maintenance of standards in AWS architecture, CI/CD, testing, and platform support.
* Share knowledge with the wider technical community, lead in the recruitment of other engineers, and support consultants in their professional development.
* Ensure Hippo’s DevOps and Engineering communities contribute to the business at a strategic level.
About The Candidate
* Expert proficiency with AWS cloud services (including EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, and IAM) for seamless integration and deployment.
* Excellent experience in designing and maintaining robust pipelines, specifically using GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions, including debugging complex pipeline issues.
* Strong experience in the deployment and management of containerised applications using Amazon EKS (Kubernetes) and the Kubectl CLI.
* Extensive experience utilising Terraform.
* Experience integrating and orchestrating testing tools (such as PyTest or Selenium) within automated pipelines to ensure code quality.
* Deep experience with Docker for containerisation, image optimisation, and application packaging.
* Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions, specifically using Prometheus, Grafana, or AWS CloudWatch.
* Experience implementing robust security practices, including AWS Secrets Manager, encryption (KMS/TLS), and Identity & Access Management (IAM).
Benefits
* Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
* 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
* Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
* Critical illness cover
* Life assurance and death in service cover
* Volunteer days
* Cycle‑to‑work scheme for avid cyclists
* Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
* Season ticket loans
* Financial and general wellbeing sessions
* Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
o private health cover
o private dental cover
o additional company pension contributions
o additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
o wellbeing contribution
o charity contributions
o tree planting
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo
At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We encourage applications from under‑represented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.
Hi, we’re Hippo.
At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We combine data‑informed evidence, human‑centred design and software engineering. We are a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.
We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. Our human‑centred approach ensures our solutions work for users in the real world.
Our combination of data, design and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We are confident, authentic, and passionate about what we do. If you’re looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.
Hippo Locations
We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We look for talent nationwide but you need to be located within a reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices, which will be your contracted office location. You may be required to work on‑site at a Hippo office or at an in‑ or out‑of‑town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent). Candidates must be open/flexible to travel. We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move smooth.
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