Salary negotiable, Yearly bonus + Hybrid Working: Depending on experience. This is a key position within our business; we are looking for someone to drive our internal capability development to shape and improve our offerings to clients.

Overview

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support the delivery of secure, scalable, automated cloud platforms across Public Sector and Defence programmes. You will work across Azure and AWS environments, implement automation using Python, and support Red Hat-based systems while ensuring best‑practice security, compliance, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated testing and deployment.

• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.

• Manage and optimise cloud-based environments delivering solutions on AWS and Azure to support secure, scalable, and resilient services.

• Administer and support Red Hat / Linux platforms, including patching, configuration, and secure baselining.

• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting using tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar to ensure platform reliability and performance, including defining and tracking SLIs/SLOs and supporting incident response and post-incident reviews.

• Work with development teams to improve build, release and deployment processes.

• Manage containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment tooling, ingress and scaling.

• Maintain secure infrastructure and ensure compliance with security and governance standards, including IAM/least privilege, secrets management, secure CI/CD practices and policy controls.

• Identify opportunities to improve cost, performance and reliability (FinOps-aware), and help clients understand key cost drivers and trade-offs.

• Troubleshoot issues across environments including development, staging and production.

• Contribute to client-ready documentation including architecture decision records (ADRs), operational runbooks, as-built documentation and handover packs.

• Promote DevOps culture including collaboration, automation and continuous improvement.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience working in a client-facing delivery environment, able to communicate technical concepts clearly and manage stakeholders.

• Experience working in a DevOps, Platform Engineering or Site Reliability role.

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).

• Hands-on experience delivering on AWS and Azure, including core services for networking, compute, storage, identity and logging.

• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform, ARM, Bicep, CloudFormation).

• Experience administering and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux or similar.

• Knowledge of containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience with scripting or programming (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell).

• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git.

• Experience supporting production systems, including incident response, problem management and reliability improvements using SLIs/SLOs.

• Experience implementing observability solutions (logging, metrics and ideally tracing) and turning telemetry into actionable alerting and dashboards.

Desirable Skills

• Experience working in microservices architectures.

• Strong security and DevSecOps practices (e.g., IAM design, vulnerability scanning and secure CI/CD).

• Experience with cloud landing zones and governance guardrails (e.g., AWS Organisations, Azure management groups, policies, tagging standards).

• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef).

• Exposure to GitOps and policy-as-code approaches (e.g., Argo CD/Flux)

• Exposure to serverless technologies.

• Experience working in Agile or Scrum delivery teams.

Personal Attributes

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement.

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Comfortable working across development and operations teams.

• Able to communicate technical concepts clearly and simply.

• Proactive and motivated to automate repetitive tasks.

• Interested in learning new tools and technologies.

• Proactive in developing and expanding Devops capability within i3Works

Typical Tech Stack (Example)

• Cloud: AWS / Azure

• Infrastructure: Terraform / Bicep / ARM

• Containers: Docker / Kubernetes

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions / GitLab / Azure DevOps (with secure pipeline patterns)

• Security: Azure Key Vault / AWS Secrets Manager, IAM/RBAC, policy controls

• Monitoring/Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog (plus tracing where applicable)

• Languages: Python, Bash, PowerShell

Role Location

This role is a full-time position (40 hours/5 days a week)

Our consultants are expected to work in a hybrid environment, in accordance with our clients. We require our people to be within an easily commutable distance of our Bristol office and to be able to co-locate at our client locations, which are typically 50 miles of Bristol or along the M4 corridor. New clients are always coming on board, and we require our consultants to be able to work flexibly and wherever this work requires.

Our Core Values & Behaviours

Our core values, Purposeful, Dynamic & Supportive, stand us apart from our competition, are the central, driving force to i3Works’ culture and are expressed through our associated behaviours:

Purposeful

• Professionally Responsible - Builds and delivers professionalism to bring value to the organisation, stakeholders and peers.

• Driven to Deliver - Demonstrates determination, resourcefulness, and purpose to deliver the best results for and behalf of i3Works.

• Critical Thinker - Demonstrates the ability to analyse and understand data and information quickly. Uses information, insights and knowledge in a structured way to identify options, make recommendations and make robust, defendable decisions.

Dynamic

• Curious - Is future-focused, inquisitive, and open- minded; seeks out evolving and innovative ways to add value to the organization.

• Skilled Influencer - Demonstrates the ability to influence to gain the necessary commitment and support from diverse stakeholders in pursuit of organisation value.

Supportive

• Collaborative - Works effectively and inclusively with a range of people, both within and outside of the organisation

• Role Model - Consistently leads by example. Acts impartiality and independently, balancing personal and organisation parameters.

Benefits at i3Works

• Private healthcare/medical cover & Group life insurance

• Annual bonus scheme (dependent on personal and company performance)

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing by 1 day per each calendar year, after your 3rd anniversary with the company– rising to a maximum of 30 days + bank holidays).

• Enhanced Reservist Leave – up to 10 days paid.

• Annual leave purchase scheme (up to 5 days per year)

• 5% company pension contribution

• £250.00 annual donation towards a charity or grassroots organisation of your choice

• Personal wellness benefit of £120.00 per month, access to unlimited 1-1 counselling support and a wealth of wellbeing and support resources

• Enhanced parental leave

• Electric car leasing salary sacrifice scheme

• Cycle to work scheme (save 25-39% on a bike and accessories)

• Paid qualifications for employees at all levels

• Internal Employee Networks, regular social events throughout the year and charity fundraising activities to get involved with if you wish.

At i3Works we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We ensure that all hiring decisions are made without regard to age, race, national origin, sex, disability, gender, gender identity, religion, or any other protected characteristics, and will treat all applications with the strictest confidence. Please don’t be afraid to ask about what we can do to support your needs. All requests will be carefully and fairly considered. We wish you every success in your job search.