DevOps Engineer

£45000-60000 GBP

Bonus

Hybrid WORKING

Location: Manchester, North West - United Kingdom Type: Permanent

DevOps Engineer (Defence)

UK Wide - London, Manchester, Leeds, Gloucester (Hybrid)

£45,000 - £60,000 + package

Working with a leading cyber and defence organisation delivering secure, cloud-native platforms across national security and government environments. They're looking for DevOps Engineers to build, automate and scale critical infrastructure supporting high-impact programmes.

The Role

You'll be responsible for engineering and automating cloud infrastructure, enabling fast, secure and reliable delivery across complex environments.

Key responsibilities

Design, build and manage cloud infrastructure across Azure or GCP

Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation

Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery

Support containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes)

Develop automation scripts (Python, Bash, Shell)

Work within cross-functional DevOps / SRE teams to improve system reliability and scalability

Apply DevOps best practices across monitoring, logging and deployment

What they're looking for

2+ years experience in DevOps / Platform Engineering

Hands-on with: Azure or GCP, Terraform (or similar IaC tools) and CI/CD tooling

Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Scripting experience (Python, Bash or similar)

Solid understanding of Linux, networking and cloud architecture

Experience working in Agile environments

Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)

Package

£45,000 - £60,000 base

Bonus + strong benefits package

Hybrid working across multiple UK locations

Get in touch with Connor Smyth at Anson McCade to hear more.