Hybrid DevOps Engineer

at Gemba Advantage

• Job title: DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £40,000 - £70,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Manchester, United Kingdom

About the role

• Junior and DevOps Engineers designing and running secure cloud-native platforms for UK public-sector organisations. Collaborating with teams to streamline deployment and automate infrastructure workflows.

Responsibilities

• Apply technical knowledge to research, prototype, and deliver novel solutions to client challenges
• Automate infrastructure and processes to facilitate the work of the development team
• Applying your knowledge to write continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for software delivery
• Take part in technical reviews, provide constructive feedback, and support fault fixing/maintenance tasks
• Document practices, share knowledge, and keep up to date with emerging technologies

Requirements

• Active, or recently active, SC or DV clearance **(essential)**
• A proactive attitude toward learning, problem‑solving, and improving how things are built
• Basic competence with programming/scripting languages
• Knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS preferred), IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), and cloud-native tech (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with version control (Git), databases, APIs, and strong information security focus

Benefits

• We’re guided by four core values that make Gemba a great place to work:
• Our people are our most important asset, and we prioritise their needs.
• We succeed and fail as a team, not as individuals.
• We do the right thing and we do the thing right.
• We keep an unwavering focus on the customer’s needs.
• Away from our values, Gemba offers an excellent and comprehensive package to our Gembans, including great salaries, meaningful perks, a culture of truly rewarding and celebrating success, amongst many other core benefits like flexible pensions and PMI.