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Exeter, Devon - £50k to £55k Permanent Posted by: ISR Recruitment Ltd Posted: Thursday, 22 January 2026
 
 
Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location
  • Senior DevOps Engineer
  • Exeter, Devon (Candidates must be UK-based - office attendance won't be regular maybe only once a month)
  • Up to £55,000 per year
  • Plus excellent company benefits (including an excellent Pension Scheme, Private Healthcare, Personal + Company Bonuses, Life Insurance, etc.)

Skills and Experience:

  • Proven experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer, demonstrating strong mentoring skills across multiple initiatives, with deep expertise in AWS must have a minimum of 3 years
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, ECS, ECR, and CloudFront
  • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
  • Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, managing and creating as required
  • Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker)
  • Strong Scripting and automation skills like bash, PowerShell and Python.
  • Experience with configuration management tool like Ansible, Puppet or Chef.
  • Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
  • Certified AWS Solutions Architect associate or equivalent experience
  • Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems including security features such as iptables and routing tables
  • Knowledge of Windows operating systems including its associated security features
  • Good knowledge in network engineering in order to manage VPCs and SGs within AWS
  • Flexibility to work outside normal working hours as demands of the service dictate
  • Flexibility to travel between core sites to assist with new service implementation and support issues
  • Ability and desire to learn new technologies with a passion for developing new skills and the associated accreditations

The Opportunity:

My client is an established leader in their field providing expertise and a first-class experience within the public services sector.

The role is responsible for the definition and adherence of DevOps standards as well as overseeing daily operations, ensuring targets are met, in a positive work environment for a diverse selection of clients.

In addition to this, the role will assume responsibility for the availability, performance, resilience and security of the core platform and infrastructure and will undertake whatever actions necessary to ensure this is within the agreed operating constraints and budget.

You will design, build and maintain our Cloud Infrastructure, optimising for cost, security and performance; whilst monitoring the overall system performance, security-levels and service availability, ensuring that security best practices are followed for AWS resources, including IAM policies, encryption and network security.

Applications:

Please contact John Noonan here at ISR Recruitment to learn more about our client delivering technical solutions across and into public sector departments from their offices in Exeter, Devon?

Exeter, Devon, UK
IT
Public Sector
February (ASAP)
£50k to £55k
ISR Recruitment Ltd
John Noonan 
JS-DEVOPS-DEVON
22/01/2026 11:06:42
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