DevOps Engineer

Salary: £45,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements

• Experience working within a DevOps, SRE or platform engineering role
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Experience with microservices architectures and cloud-native platforms
• Knowledge of GitOps methodologies and CI/CD tooling such as Argo CD, Flux, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Proficiency with Terraform, Helm and at least one major cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Software engineering capability in a backend language such as Go, Python or TypeScript
• Understanding of observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana or OpenTelemetry
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working within an agile, delivery-focused environment

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate production Kubernetes clusters and supporting platform services
• Create and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code principles
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
• Implement observability solutions including metrics, logging and tracing for platform monitoring
• Optimise platform performance, scalability and operational efficiency
• Contribute to backend tooling and automation where required
• Participate in code and configuration reviews, promoting engineering best practices
• Embed security into delivery pipelines, including image scanning, dependency management and secrets handling
• Support incident response, post-incident reviews and continuous service improvement
• Work collaboratively with engineering and product teams to support predictable, low-risk releases

Technologies

• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GCP
• GitHub
• GitLab
• GitOps
• Grafana
• Helm
• Support
• Kubernetes
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• microservices

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We are a technology-led client specialising in AI-driven platform development, delivered through cloud-native, microservices-based architectures. AI is used across our stack to accelerate platform delivery, automate operations and improve reliability. This is a remote working role, but we are looking for someone who lives within the greater Aberdeen area. You will join an expanding team and contribute to a modern engineering environment focused on automation, resilience and continuous improvement.

last updated 27 week of 2026