i3Works Ltd

Senior / Principal Consultant – DevOps Engineer

i3Works Ltd

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: BristolUnited Kingdom

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💰 £NaN per year

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About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.
Benefits
  • 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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
CI/CDInfrastructure as CodeTerraformBicepCloudFormationAWSAzureDockerKubernetesPython
Soft Skills
communicationstakeholder managementcollaborationcontinuous improvement