DevOps Engineer

We are excited to be working with a market\-leading organisation undergoing a major technology transformation journey. With significant investment in cloud, platforms, and modern engineering practices, this is a fantastic opportunity to join at a pivotal moment. This business is evolving from a traditional infrastructure environment into a modern, cloud\-first ecosystem and they’re looking for someone to help lead that change, influence strategy, and bring teams along the journey. **What you will do** You’ll play a key role in driving platform engineering capability across the organisation, leading from the front both technically and strategically. * Lead the design and delivery of cloud\-based platforms in AWS * Drive adoption of automation, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices * Support the transformation of legacy workloads into containerised and cloud\-native architectures * Act as a technical leader and escalation point for complex platform challenges * Mentor and coach engineers, helping raise capability across the team * Influence standards, tooling, and best practices across the platform function **Responsibilities** * Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and reusable cloud platforms * Implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling * Define and enforce engineering standards, patterns, and documentation * Lead on platform support, maintenance, and security compliance * Implement monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery solutions * Continuously improve performance, cost\-efficiency, and scalability * Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineers * Support architectural decisions and solve complex technical challenges **What we are looking for** * Strong experience in platform engineering / DevOps environments * Hands\-on experience with AWS (ideally also exposure to GCP) * Strong knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation tools * Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines / GitOps environments * Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and microservices architectures * Strong understanding of infrastructure, networking, and security principles * Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments **Details** * **Location:** Northampton (hybrid – 2 days per week onsite) * **Salary:** £50,000 \- 60,000 \+ up to 15% bonus * **Contract:** Permanent **If this sounds like you apply below!**