Sanderson
DevOps Engineer Bristol (Hybrid) | £60,000-£70,000 DOE
We're looking for a talented DevOps Engineer to join a growing technology team, helping to build, maintain and enhance the cloud infrastructure behind an innovative SaaS platform.
Working closely with software engineers and reporting to the Infrastructure Lead, you'll play a key role in ensuring systems are secure, scalable, reliable and efficient, while enabling teams to deliver high-quality software quickly and confidently.
The Role
As a DevOps Engineer, you'll take ownership of cloud infrastructure and deployment processes, using modern DevOps practices and tooling to drive reliability, automation and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring security, performance and cost efficiency
- Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitLab
- Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Collaborate with development teams to streamline deployments and improve the developer experience
- Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues and implement long-term reliability improvements
- Promote infrastructure security best practices, including IAM, secrets management and network security
- Support and maintain development, testing and production environments
- Contribute to disaster recovery, backup and business continuity planning
- Evaluate and introduce new DevOps tools and technologies where beneficial
- Utilise AI-assisted engineering tools to improve automation, productivity and delivery speed
Skills & Experience
- 3+ years' experience in a DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering position
- Strong knowledge of AWS services and cloud infrastructure management
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles
- Experience building and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of containerisation technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms such as ECS
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus)
- Strong understanding of security best practices and cloud governance
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering workflows
What's on Offer?
- Salary of £60,000-£70,000 depending on experience
- Hybrid working model based around Bristol
- Flexible working hours
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Birthday off each year
- Company pension scheme
- Ongoing training and career development opportunities
- Supportive, collaborative and innovative working environment
If you're passionate about cloud infrastructure, automation and modern DevOps practices, we'd love to hear from you.
Reasonable Adjustments:
Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.
If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.
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