DevOps Engineer

Dev Ops Engineer

Salary Range: £70,929 - £85,000 per annum

Location: Manchester

Hours: Full-time – 35 hours per week

Working Pattern: Hybrid – at least two days per week (40% of time) in the Manchester office

About This Opportunity: Exciting opportunity for a hands‑on Dev Ops Engineer to join our Voice, Workforce Intelligence team. You’ll play a key role in shaping how we deliver software at scale, driving automation, and embedding best practices across our engineering workflows. This is a technical role for someone passionate about building resilient, secure, and efficient systems. You’ll be instrumental in evolving our CI/CD pipelines, optimising cloud‑native deployments, and ensuring our platforms are future‑ready.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI by embedding fairness, transparency, and accountability at the heart of innovation. You’ll join us at an exciting time as we move into the next phase of our transformation. We’re looking for curious, passionate engineers who thrive on innovation and want to make a real impact.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and Influence Ways of Working – Champion Dev Ops principles and modern engineering practices across teams, fostering a culture of automation and continuous improvement.
• Build and Optimise CI/CD Pipelines – Design, implement, and maintain pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Git, Nexus, and Maven to enable fast, reliable software delivery.
• Infrastructure as Code – Use Terraform to provision and manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability and compliance.
• Containerisation and Orchestration – Deploy and manage applications using Docker and Kubernetes, optimising for performance and resilience.
• Monitoring and Observability – Implement and maintain monitoring solutions with Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, and Kibana to ensure system health and proactive issue resolution.
• Continuous Deployment and Release Strategies – Work with tools like Harness to enable automated deployments and advanced release strategies.
• Security and Compliance – Embed security best practices into pipelines and infrastructure, ensuring adherence to governance and regulatory standards.

What You’ll Need

• Proven experience in Dev Ops engineering and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Strong knowledge of Jenkins, Git, Nexus, Maven, and Terraform.
• Hands‑on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Familiarity with Harness for deployment automation.
• Expertise in monitoring and observability tools:
  Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Kibana.
• Strong understanding of cloud‑native architectures and infrastructure automation.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and ability to work in Agile environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

It would be great if you had any of the following

• Experience with cost optimisation and autoscaling strategies in cloud environments.
• Knowledge of security automation and compliance frameworks.
• Familiarity with performance tuning and advanced deployment strategies.

About Working For Us

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We

Also Offer a Wide‑Ranging Benefits Package, Which Includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

Join Our Journey!

Want to do amazing work that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!

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Commitment to Inclusion

We’re focused on creating a values‑led culture and are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

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