DevOps Engineer

Job description

Were looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team in the Bristol Design & Product Development (D&PD) office part of the Ensera Group.

Ensera has facilities in Europe the USA and Asia as well as Design & Development hubs in Bristol UK (where youll be based) and New Jersey and Colorado in the USA.

In this role youll report directly to and work alongside the Head of IT taking ownership of the development infrastructure tooling environments and automation that enable our software and engineering teams to deliver effectively.

Youll work closely with software embedded electronics and wider engineering teams to ensure our development environments are secure reliable scalable and efficient. A key part of the role will be improving our CI/CD capability development workflows infrastructure automation and deployment practices while administering the core platforms that underpin the software development lifecycle.

This is a hands-on role where youll have the opportunity to identify improvements introduce automation and help shape how DevOps practices develop across Ensera Design. Youll also contribute to wider infrastructure cybersecurity and group technology projects where required.

Occasional travel to other Ensera locations including Ireland Poland and the USA may be required and some projects could involve evening or weekend work.

Job requirements

About you

Youre a technically capable and proactive DevOps Engineer who enjoys working at the intersection of software development infrastructure automation and security.

Youll be comfortable taking ownership of development platforms and environments working directly with engineering teams to understand their requirements and implementing solutions that make development faster more reliable repeatable and secure.

Youre interested in more than simply keeping systems running. You look for opportunities to automate manual processes improve CI/CD pipelines standardise development environments and create better tooling and workflows for engineers.

Youre methodical and comfortable troubleshooting complex issues across Linux development tooling networks servers and software environments. You can communicate clearly with technical and non-technical colleagues and are confident documenting systems and explaining technical decisions during project reviews or audits.

Working within medical device development also means youll understand the importance of security traceability documentation reliability and controlled change.

Essential skills and experience

Experience in one or more of the following:

• DevOps Platform Engineering Software Engineering Systems Engineering or a similar technical role within a software or engineering environment

• Strong working knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)

• Experience administering development platforms such as JIRA Git Bitbucket Confluence or CI/CD systems

• Experience building maintaining or improving CI/CD pipelines

• Good knowledge of Git and version control workflows

• Familiarity with Linux environments and command-line administration

• Experience with scripting and automation

• Experience administering or supporting development infrastructure servers and associated services

• Understanding of TCP/IP DNS DHCP VPNs and networking fundamentals

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across development environments software infrastructure and connectivity

• Experience working collaboratively with software and engineering teams to improve development workflows

• Ability to take ownership of technical platforms and drive continuous improvement

• Strong communication and documentation skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly

Beneficial skills and experience

Experience in any of the following specific areas would be desirable:

• Atlassian suite Bitbucket JIRA and Confluence

• Embedded development environments or tools such as IAR Embedded Workbench or Altium Designer

• Advanced Git administration and branching strategies

• Scripting and automation using Bash Python PowerShell or similar

• Infrastructure as Code and configuration management

• Containerisation technologies such as Docker

• Cloud platforms and services

• Build automation and artifact management

• Monitoring logging and observability

• Supporting audits or working within regulated or safety-critical environments

• Familiarity with security standards and frameworks such as ISO 27001 IEC 81001 or Cyber Essentials

• Experience improving or redesigning development environments infrastructure or toolchains

• Experience introducing DevOps practices into an established engineering environment

Key responsibilities

DevOps & CI/CD

• Develop maintain and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines supporting software and engineering teams

• Identify manual development and deployment activities that can be automated

• Improve build test integration and deployment workflows

• Work with developers to create repeatable and reliable development processes

• Support continuous integration practices and improve development feedback loops

• Monitor pipeline performance and proactively resolve issues

Development Tool Administration

• Own and administer core development platforms and engineering toolsets

• Manage access permissions integrations and configurations

• Ensure availability performance reliability and security of development tools

• Drive platform improvements upgrades integrations and automation

• Work with engineering teams to ensure tooling remains aligned with evolving development requirements

Development Environments & Infrastructure

• Maintain and improve Linux-based development and build environments

• Support infrastructure underpinning software development and engineering activities

• Standardise development environments to improve consistency and repeatability

• Automate environment configuration and routine administrative activities where possible

• Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure development tooling networks and software environments

• Work closely with developers to continuously improve the developer experience

Software Development Lifecycle Support

• Support the full SDLC from requirements and development through to testing verification and deployment

• Improve workflows traceability and collaboration through tooling and automation

• Work with development teams to establish scalable DevOps practices

• Support version control strategies and repository management

• Identify opportunities to reduce development bottlenecks and improve engineering productivity

Cybersecurity Compliance & Documentation

• Ensure development systems and environments are secure patched and aligned with internal security policies