Lead AWS DevOps Engineer, Technology Consulting

Would you like to be part of a fast-growing technology and engineering organisation that nurtures an open, collaborative learning environment? Are you passionate about technology, people and developing your coding skills? If this describes you, we’re trying to create the best engineering consultancy in the UK and would love for you to be part of the journey.

We draw on our reputation for outstanding delivery to allow our engineers to do the right thing for our clients. Our engineers take a holistic approach that addresses technology, process, and structure to make a lasting impact. We work collaboratively with users to create minimum viable products that are truly ready for use.

At Credera, you'll work on diverse client projects, we help organisations solve their biggest, most exciting engineering problems. We’ve created banks from scratch on Kubernetes and AWS, built streaming analytics solutions that protect the country and built platforms to enable whole organisations to move to AWS and Azure, delivered zero downtime deployments into production with CI/CD best practices, and everything in between.

This is a permanent within our Technology Solutions function. At Credera, we operate a flexible hybrid working model, requiring 3 days per week onsite - either at client sites or your local Credera office (London, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle). We value collaboration and client impact, balancing flexibility with in-person connection to deliver exceptional results.

Due to the nature of this role and specific client engagement, any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance. To meet the client's eligibility requirements, applicants must have been resident in the UK for the last five years and must not have spent more than six consecutive months outside the UK during that period.

As a Lead Engineer at Credera, you will spend most of your time on client work, with the remainder of your time spent working on internal projects as well as training and development. Consultancy to us is about customer delivery first, carried out by technically excellent people. Our aim is not to pigeon-hole but rather upskill our engineers so they can learn and expand their expertise, as well as deliver on a variety of business-critical client projects.

You are perceptive, personable, culturally sensitive and demonstrate a high degree of emotional intelligence. Being able to work collaboratively in a matrix organisation is essential, as is the ability to use cloud native products to build bespoke applications from scratch.

• Experience leading a team of 4+ engineers and acting as the technical owner of a project
• Demonstrable experience in automating operations tasks with one or more scripting languages
• Experience creating and/or maintaining production software delivery pipelines using common CI/CD tools (e.g. AWS Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab)
• Experience working with AWS (Azure/GCP experience is advantageous)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Cloud formation)
• Have a drive for self-improvement and learning, including learning new programming languages
• Approach solving problems pragmatically
• Experience mentoring/managing junior engineers
• You will be required to hold active SC clearance for this role.
• Experience supporting and operating production systems
• Familiarity with configuration management tooling (e.g. Ansible)
• Cloud certifications in additional public cloud platforms (Azure or GCP)
• Experience using AI or Agentic techniques in application of the role through Git Hub CoPilot, Claude Code, or equivalent.

Along with a great company culture, Credera provides an exceptional compensation package (£84,) including a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit plan.

Our consistent growth over the years and entrepreneurial environment, provides an excellent platform to embark upon an exciting career path, where your contribution really counts, and we will recognise it. With personalised development opportunities, experienced colleagues around the globe and exciting client assignments, progression can be extremely rapid for high performers.