DevOps Engineer

Salary: £65,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements

• Active SC Clearance (mandatory)
• Strong commercial experience delivering DevOps solutions within AWS environments
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda and ECS/EKS
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience in production environments
• Scripting skills using Python and/or Bash
• Solid understanding of Git version control
• Experience working within Agile, multidisciplinary teams
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform
• Build secure, highly available and scalable cloud environments
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and operational processes
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting efficient software delivery
• Improve monitoring, logging and observability capabilities
• Deploy and manage Docker and Kubernetes-based workloads
• Support cloud platforms across production and non-production environments
• Investigate and resolve infrastructure, deployment and platform issues
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver robust cloud-native solutions
• Champion DevOps principles, automation and continuous improvement

Technologies

• AWS
• Lambda
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• EC2
• Git
• GitHub
• GitLab
• IAM
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Terraform
• Security

More

We are Amber Labs, a leading UK and European technology consultancy delivering secure, user-centred digital services across government and public sector organisations. We offer a remote-first working model with access to our Liverpool Street office for in-person collaboration, along with 25 days annual leave plus public holidays, private medical insurance with Bupa, a personal training budget, Perkbox membership, an electric vehicle scheme after one year of service, regular team socials, employer pension contributions, and a referral scheme offering up to £3,000 for successful hires. This is an opportunity to join our growing consultancy early and help shape our direction and success while supporting major UK government and public sector digital transformation programmes. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to succeed.

last updated 34 week of 2026