DevOps Engineer NEW

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Addition Solutions Ltd

Working at the forefront of technology and security, this innovative company supports critical national security projects that safeguard what matters most. They bring together talented engineers, scientists, and creatives from diverse backgrounds to develop solutions that shape tomorrow’s technology landscape. As part of their team, you’ll contribute to meaningful work that makes a real difference.

Role Overview

• Location: Cheltenham, United Kingdom
• Package: £Competitive
• Industry: National Security, Defence, and Intelligence
• Clearance: eDV

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Design, deploy, and maintain resilient, high-availability web services across different environments.
• Lead efforts to improve reliability, reduce technical debt, and manage incident responses including root cause analysis.
• Develop, automate, and optimise infrastructure as code and container platforms with tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines for safe, repeatable deployments.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing to support troubleshooting and performance optimisation.
• Embed security practices into pipelines and infrastructure, managing secrets, certificates, access controls, and compliance automation.
• Mentor junior engineers, influence engineering standards, and contribute to platform reliability strategies in a collaborative environment.

Main Skills Needed:

• Experience deploying secure, scalable web services in production.
• Strong background in DevOps/SRE practices and CI/CD tooling such as GitLab CI or Jenkins.
• Proficiency with containerisation and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Kibana.
• Programming skills in Python, JavaScript, or Java, and a willingness to learn new tech.
• Experience with AI-enabled workflows and data pipelines is a bonus.
• Security awareness and experience with automation in classified and unclassified environments.
• Cloud experience, particularly with AWS, is desirable.

What’s in It for You:

Join a team that values innovation, technical excellence, and continuous learning. Enjoy flexible working arrangements, a strong benefits package-including 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays-and the chance to work on impactful projects within a company that combines over 70 years of heritage with modern agility. Your growth and diverse perspectives are genuinely supported here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.