Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer Location: Predominantly home-based, with occasional travel to client sites in London. Ideally based near Bristol, Cheltenham, Manchester Salary: £60,000-£80,000 (individual contributor role, not Team Lead) Clearance: SC cleared or clearable About the client SR2 is supporting on of our long standing consultancy clients who are on a mission to make the UK the safest place to work online. They deliver highly secure, technically challenging projects for UK Government clients. They invest heavily in their people - regular team socials, an annual company trip, five fully paid training days a year, and genuine career progression. The role You'll join a small, fast-paced agile delivery team, taking a leading role across the project lifecycle - from architecture and build through to managing customer relationships. There's a big, brand-new AI project on offer right now, genuinely exciting stuff, but very confidential at this stage. It involves taking a newly designed AI system and implementing/scaling it into a live working environment. It requires standard security clearance so ideally you will be cleared already or happy to go through clearance. What you'll do Build and operate CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code Design platform services for deployment, operation and monitoring of containerised products Build new infrastructure (not just maintain existing environments) Work in public/private cloud, primarily AWS Support Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), mentor junior team members, manage customer relationships What we're looking for Strong AWS experience essential (AWS-focused, not Azure) Solid grounding in security principles and secure-by-design practices Experience with CI/CD, containerisation, IaC, testing frameworks Comfortable leading design work and mentoring early-career engineers Strong stakeholder management skills Benefits 25 days holiday plus bank holidays Group pension scheme with matched employer contributions Private health insurance after probation, with option to add family cover Life insurance and personal accident cover Health & wellbeing cash plan (dental, optical, physio and more) Employee assistance programme Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, and interest-free PC loan Stock purchase plan with company top-up Five fully paid training days a year and clear routes for career progressionThe role is home based with adhoc travel to London. 2 stage interview happening asap