Senior Devops Engineer

Company: Deerfoot IT Resources Limited
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Location: Abingdon on Thames
Job Description:

Senior DevOps Engineer

AWS / Kubernetes / Terraform / CI/CD / Infrastructure as Code

Oxfordshire (Hybrid – 2 days a week in the office)

£85,000 – £110,000 DOE

Want to be the senior voice on infrastructure, with real say over how software reaches production?

This Senior DevOps Engineer role is with a growing UK technology company building AI-led products for customers who work in high-stakes sectors. You’ll be the most experienced platform engineer in a small team, with direct influence over the tools, standards and priorities the engineering group works to.

It’s a permanent role in Oxfordshire, hybrid, with 2 days a week in the office.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Designing and running secure multi-account AWS environments, defined entirely as code
  • Managing container platforms in the cloud and on-premises, with automated GitOps-style deployments
  • Leading security reviews and hardening across the estate
  • Owning monitoring, alerting and resilience, including regular backup and recovery testing
  • Keeping cloud spend and capacity under control, and supporting compliance audits
  • Handling incidents and coaching developers on secure delivery

What You’ll Bring

  • A strong DevOps or SRE background, with recent hands-on AWS experience
  • Deep Kubernetes experience, ideally including on-premises clusters, plus Helm, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and GitOps tooling, with Docker and Linux
  • Experience managing artifact repositories and integrating single sign-on
  • Scripting in Bash and Python or Go, and security testing built into pipelines
  • Desirable: MLOps experience, Prometheus-style observability, security frameworks such as ISO 27001, active SC clearance

What’s On Offer

  • Pension with employer contribution
  • Private healthcare
  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Hybrid working, 2 days a week in the office

Please note: You must be eligible for UK security clearance (BPSS and SC), which requires a UK passport and 5 years of continuous UK residency. Clearance can be sponsored for the right candidate.

This role may suit candidates who have held roles including: Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Platform Engineer, Senior AWS Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer

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Posted: October 18th, 2026