Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions
Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer at Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions, based in Abingdon, South East. This is a permanent role with hybrid working.
- Pay
- Not given by the employer
- Hours and contract
- Permanent · Hybrid
- Location
- Abingdon, South East
- Closing date
- Sector
- DevOps Engineer
Reference 642846127591722416
About the role
Senior DevOps Engineer
AWS / Kubernetes / Terraform / CI/CD / Infrastructure as Code
Oxfordshire (Hybrid - 2 days a week in the office)
£85,000 - £110,000 DOE
Want to be the senior voice on infrastructure, with real say over how software reaches production?
This Senior DevOps Engineer role is with a growing UK technology company building AI-led products for customers who work in high-stakes sectors. You'll be the most experienced platform engineer in a small team, with direct influence over the tools, standards and priorities the engineering group works to.
It's a permanent role in Oxfordshire, hybrid, with 2 days a week in the office.
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing and running secure multi-account AWS environments, defined entirely as code
- Managing container platforms in the cloud and on-premises, with automated GitOps-style deployments
- Leading security reviews and hardening across the estate
- Owning monitoring, alerting and resilience, including regular backup and recovery testing
- Keeping cloud spend and capacity under control, and supporting compliance audits
- Handling incidents and coaching developers on secure delivery
What You'll Bring
- A strong DevOps or SRE background, with recent hands-on AWS experience
- Deep Kubernetes experience, ideally including on-premises clusters, plus Helm Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and GitOps tooling, with Docker and Linux
- Experience managing artifact repositories and integrating single sign-on
- Scripting in Bash and Python or Go, and security testing built into pipelines
Desirable: MLOps experience, Prometheus-style observability, security frameworks such as ISO 27001, active SC clearance
What's On Offer
- Pension with employer contribution
- Private healthcare
- Generous holiday allowance
- Hybrid working, 2 days a week in the office
Please note: You must be eligible for UK security clearance (BPSS and SC), which requires a UK passport and 5 years of continuous UK residency. Clearance can be sponsored for the right candidate.
This role may suit candidates who have held roles including: Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Platform Engineer, Senior AWS Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer
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Reference: 642846127591722416 · Posted 2 days ago · Closes 28 Nov 2026 · Listed via Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions
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