Lead DevOps Engineer

Senior/Lead/Principal Dev Ops Engineer

£75,000-£135,000/annum

Gloucestershire - 4 days per week on site

Multiple positions available

Applicants must be eligible for the highest level of security clearance

Overview

This role sits within a specialist engineering team delivering secure, enterprise-scale cloud and data platforms for UK Government and defence clients. The work focuses on modernising data infrastructure, enabling secure data sharing, and supporting advanced analytics and AI workloads in highly regulated environments.

Projects range from shorter delivery engagements to long-term platform builds, delivered within agile teams solving complex, real-world challenges.

The role

As a Lead Dev Ops Engineer, you'll take a hands-on role in designing, building and operating secure cloud environments that support both batch and real-time data platforms. Alongside this, you'll act as a technical lead within the team, helping to shape engineering standards, support delivery, and mentor other engineers.

You'll be involved across the full lifecycle, from design and build through to deployment, optimisation and ongoing support, with a strong focus on automation, security and reliability.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver cloud infrastruc...