Location: Colchester, Essex (Hybrid 3 days per week in the office)
Overview
We’re looking for a DevOps / Platform Engineer to join a growing technology organisation whose products support public safety, compliance, and regulatory services. This is an opportunity to work on meaningful technology that has real-world impact, while helping engineering teams deliver software faster, more reliably, and at scale.
In this role, you’ll design, build, and maintain an internal developer platform and cloud infrastructure that enables teams to ship high-quality software with confidence.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Designing and evolving self-service tooling, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud environments (Azure)
* Implementing Infrastructure as Code and GitOps workflows using tools such as Terraform and Ansible
* Creating “golden paths” and paved roads to reduce cognitive load for developers
* Ensuring platform security, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency
* Collaborating with SRE, security, and application teams to define standards and best practices
* Automating repetitive tasks and reducing operational toil through tooling and runbooks
* Driving adoption of modern engineering practices, including observability, progressive delivery, and resilience testing
What We’re Looking For
You’ll be someone who:
* Is empathetic towards developers and focused on reducing friction
* Is comfortable working with ambiguity and owning initiatives end-to-end
* Thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment
* Enjoys learning, sharing knowledge, and improving ways of working
* Has strong communication skills and a clear sense of ownership
Experience & Skills
* 3+ years’ experience in DevOps or Platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles
* Proven experience building and scaling production-grade systems
* Experience with Kubernetes, pipelines, Terraform, Azure and Ansible
* Background working in agile engineering teams with rapid delivery cycles
* Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems, with a focus on performance and cost optimisation
What’s On Offer
Competitive benefits package, the chance to work with some exceptional people and teams on really exciting real world changing work.
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