DevOps Engineer Job Cambridge area,England UK,Software Development

About the Role

IQGeo is seeking a Dev Ops Engineer to play an integral role in supporting our global Engineering teams from our Cambridge, UK office. This role joins a dynamic team focused on building and maintaining tools and automation to streamline the software development lifecycle, reduce cognitive load for engineering teams, and improve release velocity.

What You’ll Do

Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software builds, testing, and releases.
Build and maintain internal tooling to support the software development lifecycle (e.g., code quality analysis, dependency management, automated testing).
Collaborate with engineering teams to identify and automate manual processes, reducing cognitive load and improving efficiency.
Implement and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for internal development environments.
Work closely with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to build processes, testing, and deployments.
Coordinate penetration testing, code/virus scanning, and disseminate findings to the engineering team for resolution.
Measure performance and environment of applications with system and application log tools.
Work with Product Engineering to ensure technical alignment and best practice approaches are used.
Evaluate and implement new tools and technologies to improve developer experience and release velocity.
Use AI coding assistants to accelerate authoring of CI/CD pipeline configurations, IaC scripts, and automation tooling.
Apply AI-assisted security scanning (SAST) as an automated merge gate across engineering pipelines.
Support delivery teams and partners to reduce the complexity of implementing IQGeo solutions.
Participate in an on-call rotation.

Mandatory AI Engineering Competencies

Candidates must demonstrate the ability to work effectively in an AI-First Software Development Lifecycle.

Proficient in AI-assisted software development using modern coding assistants to accelerate design, implementation, testing and documentation.
Ability to translate business requirements into structured specifications prior to implementation (Spec-Driven Development).
Strong prompt engineering skills for software engineering tasks including code generation, test generation, debugging, documentation and architecture.
Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated outputs for correctness, security, performance and maintainability.
Experience using AI to generate and maintain automated unit, API and integration tests.
Demonstrated ability to work with AI agents while retaining full engineering ownership and accountability.

What You’ll Bring Essential skills & experience:

Proficient scripting skills (Python, BASH, JavaScript).
Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems.
Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git Hub Actions).
Experience with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform).
Experience using Git or other distributed version control systems.
Experience with bug tracking tools and code repositories.
Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively in a distributed remote team environment.
Fluent written and spoken English.

Nice to have:

Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
Experience with code quality analysis tools (e.g., Sonar Qube, Snyk).
Experience with dependency management tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle, npm, pip).
Experience with automated testing frameworks.
Experience with Node.js design and development.
Experience working in an Agile software engineering environment.

Your Background

Degree from an accredited university in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent industry experience.

What’s in It for You?

25 days of paid holiday, with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 extra days (total 30)
SHINE employee ownership program
Company-matched pension contributions up to 6% of base salary
Private medical insurance (Bupa) & health cash plan
Life assurance (4x gross salary) & incapacity benefit
Enhanced maternity leave policy
EV company car scheme (salary sacrifice) & cycle-to-work scheme (salary sacrifice)
Give as you earn charity scheme & paid volunteering day each year
Career development opportunities…