Devops Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Active SC Clearance | Public Sector Digital Transformation

About Amber Labs

Amber Labs is a leading UK and European technology consultancy delivering secure, user-centred digital services across government and public sector organisations.

We foster a culture of collaboration, autonomy, and continuous learning, empowering our teams to solve complex challenges using modern technologies while delivering meaningful outcomes.

🎁 What's in it for You?

✅ 25 days annual leave plus public holidays, giving you time to properly switch off and recharge

✅ Private medical insurance with Bupa

✅ Remote-first working, with access to our Liverpool Street office when you want to collaborate in person

✅ Personal training budget to support your professional development

✅ Perkbox membership, with access to discounts across retail, travel, dining, wellness and entertainment

✅ Electric Vehicle Scheme after one year of service

✅ Regular team socials and opportunities to connect across the business

✅ Employer pension contributions

✅ Referral scheme offering up to £3,000 for successful hires

✅ The opportunity to join a growing consultancy early and genuinely influence its direction and success

💻 About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering practice and support the delivery of major public sector digital transformation programmes.

You'll work on high-profile government projects, helping to design, build and support secure, scalable AWS cloud platforms that underpin critical digital services used by millions across the UK.

As part of a multidisciplinary Agile team, you'll collaborate closely with software engineers, solution architects, security specialists and product teams to deliver cloud-native infrastructure, improve deployment automation and enhance platform reliability. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and driving engineering excellence through automation and DevOps best practice.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform

• Build secure, highly available and scalable cloud environments

• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and operational processes

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting efficient software delivery

• Improve monitoring, logging and observability capabilities

• Deploy and manage Docker and Kubernetes-based workloads

• Support cloud platforms across production and non-production environments

• Investigate and resolve infrastructure, deployment and platform issues

• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver robust cloud-native solutions

• Champion DevOps principles, automation and continuous improvement

✅ Requirements

• Active SC Clearance (mandatory)

• Strong commercial experience delivering DevOps solutions within AWS environments

• Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda and ECS/EKS

• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI

• Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience in production environments

• Scripting skills using Python and/or Bash

• Solid understanding of Git version control

• Experience working within Agile, multidisciplinary teams

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities

ℹ️ Additional Information

• Active SC Clearance is required for this position.

• You will be supporting major UK government and public sector digital programmes.

• Unfortunately visa sponsorship is not available for this role

🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

At Amber Labs, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to succeed.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates diversity, promotes equality, and supports every employee throughout their career journey.