Devops Engineer

Location: Warwickshire

Job Specification - Devops Engineer

Infrastructure Devops Engineer - Edge Computing

Location - Warwick and Nottingham

Role Purpose

The Infrastructure Devops Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and operating automated pipelines that provision, configure, and manage edge computing servers at scale.
The role operates across portfolio‑level SAFe architectural input down to hands‑on engineering, ensuring secure, reliable, and consistent delivery of edge infrastructure across distributed sites.
This role bridges identity, networking, automation, Wintel, and OT/IT convergence while enforcing strong Git Ops, IaC, and engineering discipline.

Strategic Responsibilities

Contribute to enterprise and portfolio‑level design within a SAFe framework, ensuring edge automation aligns with wider platform strategy.
Define standards, patterns, and guardrails for automated infrastructure delivery across distributed and bandwidth‑constrained edge locations.
Collaborate with security, networking, platform, and OT teams to ensure architectural alignment and compliance with Zero Trust and operational requirements.

Infrastructure Automation & Edge Delivery

Design, build, and maintain end‑to‑end automated pipelines that provision, build, configure, and validate edge compute servers from OS image creation to production deployment.
Develop and maintain Packer image factories (Windows and Linux), integrating with Git Hub/Git Lab CI/CD.
Create zero‑touch, repeatable build workflows using IaC (Terraform, Bicep, Ansible) and Git Ops practices.
Automate OS hardening, drivers, patching, compliance controls, policy enforcement, and post‑deployment configuration for all edge servers.
Integrate security scanning, compliance checks, versioning, and artifact promotion into automated infrastructure pipelines.
Build resilient deployment processes for offline, remote, or low‑connectivity edge environments.

Operations & Continuous Improvement

Troubleshoot complex hybrid and distributed infrastructure issues across edge, on‑prem, and cloud environments.
Optimise pipeline performance, image build speed, reliability, and resource usage.
Maintain documentation, patterns, standards, and runbooks for automated edge delivery.
Participate in incident response and provide engineering leadership during major infrastructure events.

Essential Skills & Experience

Strong background in infrastructure automation, Dev Ops, or platform engineering.
Packer experience, including building automated Windows/Linux images, provisioning, and template authoring.
CI/CD experience with Git Hub Actions and Git Lab CI, including pipelines, runners, secrets, security scanning, and build governance.
Solid Wintel engineering experience (Windows Server, Group Policy, AD/Entra , patching, configuration).
Strong Power Shell scripting for build automation and configuration.
Hands-on experience building and deploying edge compute infrastructure via automated workflows.
Infrastructure‑as‑Code experience (Terraform, Bicep, Ansible or similar).

Experience with firewalls, routing, segmentation, VPNs, and network security architecture.
Understanding of OT/IT convergence, operational constraints, and security requirements.
Comfortable working within a SAFe or scaled agile environment.

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping and delivering innovative data solutions for an organisation committed to digital transformation and sustainability.

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