About this role
Salary: £85,000 - 110,000 per year
Requirements: Strong DevOps or SRE background, with recent hands-on AWS experienceDeep Kubernetes experience, ideally including on-premises clustersExperience with Helm, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps tooling, Docker and LinuxExperience managing artifact repositories and integrating single sign-onBash and Python or Go scripting skillsExperience building security testing into pipelinesEligibility for UK security clearance (BPSS and SC), requiring a UK passport and five years of continuous UK residency; clearance can be sponsored for the right candidateDesirable: MLOps experience, Prometheus-style observability, familiarity with security frameworks such as ISO 27001, and active SC clearance Responsibilities: Design and run secure, multi-account AWS environments defined entirely as codeManage cloud and on-premises container platforms, with automated GitOps-style deploymentsLead security reviews and hardening across the estateOwn monitoring, alerting and resilience, including regular backup and recovery testingManage cloud spend and capacity, and support compliance auditsHandle incidents and coach developers on secure delivery Technologies: AIAWSBashCI/CDCloudDevSecOpsDevOpsDockerGitOpsHelmSupportKubernetesLinuxMLOpsPrometheusPythonSecurityTerraform More:
We are recruiting for a permanent Senior DevOps Engineer role with a growing UK technology company building AI-led products for customers in high-stakes sectors. Youll be the most experienced platform engineer in a small team, with direct influence over engineering tools, standards and priorities. The role is based in Oxfordshire with hybrid working, including two days a week in the office, and a salary of £85,000–£110,000 depending on experience. Benefits include an employer-contribution pension, private healthcare and a generous holiday allowance. The role may also suit candidates with experience as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Platform Engineer, Senior AWS Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer, Platform Engineer or Infrastructure Engineer. Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is an independent UK technology recruitment consultancy and is acting as an Employment Agency for this vacancy. We donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation for every CV sent to clients and are a Climate Action Workforce in partnership with Ecologi. A referral reward programme offers payouts at interview and placement milestones.
last updated 42 week of 2026