Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Target Resume Now
About the Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Oxford Dynamics, you will be an essential part of our success during a critical growth phase. You will design, build, and audit scalable infrastructure, automate delivery pipelines, and champion cost-efficient, highly available platforms while owning key processes for compliance.
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and maintain multi-account, multi-region environments using IaC (Terraform, Helm).
- Manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS/OpenShift), container registries, and service meshes.
- Create GitHub Actions / Argo CD pipelines for zero-touch deployments.
- Lead security-posture reviews and implement GuardDuty, CloudWatch, and IAM best practices.
- Uphold SLAs through observability stacks, proactive alerting, and performance tuning of distributed systems.
- Automate repetitive tasks, mentor developers, and champion DevSecOps best practices.
- Steward regular audits to remain compliant with industry standards and ensure provenance.
- Design AWS Backup plans, run annual restore drills, and maintain RPO/RTO dashboards.
- Run the monthly Capacity & Availability Checklist and leverage Compute Optimizer, Savings Plans, and Graviton.
- Operate Terraform/Helm drift alerts, AMI & container image pipelines with Inspector v2 scanning.
- Coordinate emergency changes, rollbacks, and post-incident reviews.
Requirements
- Proven experience in DevOps / SRE, with a recent focus on AWS cloud engineering.
- Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB/ELB, CloudFront, ECR/ECS, Control Tower) and security tooling (GuardDuty, IAM Identity Center, CloudWatch).
- Strong Kubernetes (EKS/OpenShift) administration, Helm packaging, and service-mesh know-how.
- Strong on-prem Kubernetes setup and administration.
- Solid Nexus experience.
- Proficiency in IaC (Terraform, Terraform Cloud, CloudFormation), containerization (Docker, Docker Compose), and Linux systems.
- Solid CI/CD engineering with GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
- Experience integrating SAST and DAST best practices.
- Scripting in Bash and Python or Go for automation.
- Demonstrated success delivering cloud cost-optimization and high-security solutions for enterprise clients.
- Expertise in implementing SSO across a variety of industry-standard software.
- Experience with MLOps/LLMOps (Softwares such as Sagemaker, Kubeflow or ZenML).
- Deployment of on-premise Kubernetes.
- Prometheus (or other stacks) observability.
- Experience with AWS Karpenter & Compute Optimizer.
- Compliance literacy - ISO 27001, NIST SSDF/OWASP SAMM, GDPR basics.
- A collaborative and supportive attitude to work.
- Ability to operate at multiple levels within the company, with a strong focus on delivery and attention to detail.
- Comfort working alone, supporting team members, and interacting with clients if required.
Skills
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Cloud-native security
- Terraform
- Helm
- EKS
- OpenShift
- GitHub Actions
- Argo CD
- GuardDuty
- CloudWatch
- IAM
- SRE
- Observability
- DevSecOps
- AWS Backup
- Compute Optimizer
- Graviton
- Docker
- Docker Compose
- Linux
- Bash
- Python
- Go
- SSO
- MLOps
- LLMOps
- Sagemaker
- Kubeflow
- ZenML
- Prometheus
- AWS Karpenter
- ISO 27001
- NIST SSDF
- OWASP SAMM
- GDPR
Location
- Greater Oxford Area
Work Type
- Permanent
- Flexible
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive
Benefits
- Genuine scope and a clear path into design leadership
- Flexible and hybrid working pattern
- Company pension (NEST) with 4% employer contribution
- Private healthcare
- Generous 29 days holiday plus public holidays
About the Company
- Oxford Dynamics is a fast-growing UK frontier technology company developing both digital and physical AI systems built to operate in dynamic, mission-critical environments.
- At the core of everything we build is AVIS™ (A Very Intelligent System), our orchestration platform: the intelligence layer that fuses multi-modal data, including text, imagery, telemetry and sensor feeds, so operators can interrogate complex information at speed and make better decisions under pressure.
- AVIS™ powers our digital decision products, such as ORION for multi-source decision-to-effect, and it powers our physical platforms, including STRIDER for CBRN operations and BARBARIAN for explosive ordnance disposal.
- We work where wrong decisions can be catastrophic, partnering with defence and security organisations internationally to help protect nations, infrastructure and lives.
Equal Opportunity
- Oxford Dynamics is committed to creating an inclusive team experience for all. Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or parental status, we believe our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their authentic self.