As a DevOps Engineer at Actica, you will play a crucial role in modernising and maintaining mission-critical infrastructure for high-profile UK public sector organisations. You'll be responsible for implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automated deployment processes, ensuring the reliable delivery of services that impact people's everyday lives.
Working in secure, classified environments, you're involved in designing and delivering scalable, secure, and automated solutions that enable the rapid, reliable delivery of mission-critical systems. Supporting innovative projects involving multi-cloud platforms, zero-trust security frameworks, and robust monitoring solutions, ensuring the reliability of nationally significant services.
Our deep expertise in public sector digital transformation and established presence across defence and government organisations offer unique opportunities to work on high-impact projects while maintaining the highest security standards. If you're passionate about modern DevOps practices and want to apply your skills to transform government infrastructure while working with cutting-edge technologies in secure environments, we should discuss how your expertise could strengthen our growing practice.
As a DevOps Engineer at Actica, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure and deployment pipelines across AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms, with a focus on supporting data engineering workloads and ensuring secure, automated operations for UK public sector organisations. Working with infrastructure as code, containerisation, and modern CI/CD practices while collaborating with our data engineering teams to optimise infrastructure for their specific needs.
Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Engineering:
Design, implement, and maintain multi-cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Build and maintain cloud-native data platforms using AWS services (EMR, Redshift, Glue, Lake Formation)
Implement Azure data solutions (Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, Databricks)
Deploy and manage GCP data services (BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc)
Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters for data workloads
Implement and maintain service mesh architectures
Design and implement scalable microservices and data processing architectures
Create and maintain disaster recovery and backup solutions for data platforms
Implement and manage monitoring and observability solutions across cloud platforms
Ensure high availability and performance of production systems and data pipelines
CI/CD and Automation:
Design and implement CI/CD pipelines
Automate build, test, and deployment processes
Implement automated security scanning and compliance checks
Develop and maintain infrastructure automation scripts
Create and maintain documentation for automated processes
Implement GitOps practices and workflows
Manage source control and branching strategies
Security and Compliance:
Implement security best practices and compliance requirements
Manage access control and identity management
Configure and maintain security monitoring tools
Implement secure networking configurations
Ensure compliance with government security standards
Manage security incident response procedures
Conduct security audits and assessments
Project Responsibilities:
Tackle diverse assignments spanning modern cloud and data infrastructure, from modernising legacy systems into cloud-native architectures to building and maintaining robust data platforms across multiple cloud providers.
Implement secure data processing environments for classified information, create automated deployment pipelines for data applications and ML models, and design comprehensive multi-cloud solutions with robust monitoring systems.
Lead technical transformation initiatives, working closely with data engineering teams to support their infrastructure needs, implement DataOps practices, and collaborate with data scientists to optimise infrastructure for their workloads, ensuring smooth operations and high performance across all platforms.
Career Development
A Mentor will be on hand to provide support and guidance throughout your journey with Actica. You will also work with a Performance and Development Manager, often outside of your project line of control, who will conduct regular reviews based on project feedback to set career objectives and identify training courses which are both relevant to your current project work, and aligned with your planned career progression.
Our Commitment to Diversity
Actica aims to nurture a diverse workforce through inclusive working practices, promoting equality in our recruitment activities, and by employing candidates on the basis of merit. Discrimination against individuals on the grounds of protected characteristics is not permitted and we take steps to ensure that our staff are made aware of their legal responsibilities when making hiring decisions.
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