Lead DevOps Engineer

You've run production cloud infrastructure in practice, with deep expertise in AWS or Azure and confidence in the other. You're comfortable in the console and in the code, and you understand networking, identity, security controls and governance.

You've built reusable Terraform module catalogues, managed remote state, and supported multiple environments, accounts, or subscriptions through reviewed and controlled changes.

Your Kubernetes experience is production-focused: deployments, upgrades, troubleshooting, and capacity and performance. You've used Helm and GitOps day-to-day, with direct Argo CD experience strongly preferred.

You've designed CI/CD pipelines from scratch and implemented DevSecOps controls yourself, including secrets detection, dependency and container scanning, SBOM generation, and software supply-chain security.

You use Python or Bash regularly and can demonstrate tooling you've developed and maintained. You understand observability, incident response, root-cause analysis and production reliability.

You've helped engineers grow through collaboration and shared problem-solving. You lead by example and clearly explain technical risks, options and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Terragrunt.

CircleCI.

Cloud cost optimisation and FinOps practices.

Designing and testing backup, resilience and disaster-recovery solutions.

Working within a geographically distributed engineering team.

We pride ourselves in offering an excellent benefits package, including an above average pension scheme. When you join the team at NEC Software Solutions, you are provided with the following:

Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)

25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)

4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)

A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%

A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs

All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like.

Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.

All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting, references and occupational health checks.

Depending on the nature of the role a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check may also be required.

NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs during the recruitment or interview process, please feel free to share these with us. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accommodating experience for all candidates.

We’re NEC Software Solutions (part of global tech giant NEC Corporation). While you read this ad, our software is helping to dispatch ambulances, support families, keep trains on the move, locate missing people and even test the hearing of newborn babies.

Working with us, you’ll be helping our 3,000+ employees push the boundaries of what’s possible and support amazing public services.

We work with governments, hospitals, police forces, housing providers, local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster, speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do, the more our customers can do for others. And together, we make a world of difference.

We’d love your help. And we’ll support you all the way