Jacobs Solutions Consulting

DevOps Engineer

Manchester, United Kingdom In person Full-time

Here's what you'll need

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, building, automating and optimising cloud-native platforms and delivery pipelines that underpin critical digital services.

  • Work within agile, multidisciplinary teams to deliver modern digital services and cloud platforms.
  • Collaborate closely with clients, architects, developers and technical stakeholders to solve complex business and technical challenges.
  • Champion DevOps culture and engineering excellence, helping teams adopt modern ways of working and continuous improvement practices.
  • Design, build and maintain secure, scalable and resilient AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
  • Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment speed, reliability and quality.
  • Implement observability, monitoring and alerting solutions that provide meaningful operational insights.
  • Support cloud adoption, platform modernisation and the migration of legacy workloads.
  • Coach and enable client teams, helping them develop DevOps capabilities and best practices.
  • Contribute to our thriving Digital & Data community through knowledge sharing, mentoring and continuous learning.

What You'll Bring

  • Eligible for, or currently holding, SC Security Clearance.
  • Demonstrable experience delivering DevOps or Platform Engineering solutions within agile environments.
  • Strong AWS experience, including designing and supporting cloud-native and serverless architectures.
  • Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CDK.
  • Expertise building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and modern source control practices.
  • Experience deploying and managing containerised applications using Kubernetes, Helm and Docker.

Strong understanding of logging, monitoring and observability practices.

  • Experience designing and implementing secure, resilient and highly available cloud environments.

Working knowledge of networking, infrastructure and cloud security principles.

  • Experience supporting application deployments across Linux and cloud-hosted environments.

Scripting and automation experience using Bash, with Python and/or TypeScript advantageous.

  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable Experience (Nice to have)

  • Experience working within large-scale enterprise or multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
  • Experience with Dynatrace monitoring and observability tooling.
  • Exposure to government, regulated or security-conscious environments.
  • Experience mentoring engineers or helping clients mature DevOps capabilities.
  • A growth mindset and genuine enthusiasm for learning emerging technologies and practices.

Our Technology Ecosystem

  • We believe in choosing the right technology for the challenge, while maintaining strong expertise across modern cloud and platform engineering tooling.
  • AWS, including Lambda, SQS/SNS, API Gateway and CloudWatch
  • Jenkins, Git, Terraform and AWS CDK
  • Kubernetes, Helm and Docker
  • Kibana, Grafana and Dynatrace
  • Scripting, predominantly bash (Python & TypeScript)

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