Devops Engineer

Dev Ops Engineer

Are you passionate about infrastructure, containers, and modern platform technologies? This could be your opportunity to build a rewarding career as an Infrastructure Engineer, while playing a vital role in keeping SOCOTEC UK's technology estate running and evolving.

As our business continues to grow and expand across the UK, our IT Operations team is growing with it. We have an exciting opportunity for a driven and technically curious DevOps Engineer to join our team and wear the SOCOTEC badge with pride. You will work across a broad and modern technology stack — from Linux and Microsoft through to Kubernetes, Rancher, and our observability platform — giving you genuine exposure and development opportunities that are hard to find in a single role.

We are looking for a motivated, hands-on engineer who is ready to roll their sleeves up and get stuck in. You will contribute to the day-to-day running of our infrastructure, support our containerised workloads, and help maintain the monitoring and alerting tools that keep our services healthy. Whether you come with experience across the full stack or strong foundations you are eager to build on, you will be supported by an experienced team who are invested in your growth.

You will embody our core behaviours of integrity, curiosity, warmth, and ambition. As part of the IT Operations team, it is key that you can work independently and take ownership of tasks, whilst also collaborating effectively as part of a close-knit team. If you are ready to take the next step in your infrastructure career with a well-established, UK-wide organisation, we would love to hear from you.

About Central Services

Based in Burton-on-Trent, SOCOTEC UK’s Head Office houses our Central Services teams. These teams provide a corporate structure to support the wider business. Central Services is broken down into five main areas: Human Resources, Marketing and Communications, Finance, and IT. Each of these areas is vital to the day-to-day running of SOCOTEC.

What’s in it for you?

As well as a competitive salary, we can offer you a wide range of benefits including 25 days holiday with the opportunity to buy more, an electric car scheme (where applicable), employee recognition schemes, family friendly support, employee benefits and discounts app, employee assistance programmes, and enhanced company pension. SOCOTEC UK are proud to be Disability Confident accredited.

Think you’ve got what it takes to add value to our success? We would love to hear from you and look forward to receiving your application.

Building a safer and more sustainable world is the core mission we set out to achieve at SOCOTEC, it is at the heart of everything that we do. We are committed to acting as a key player in society, investing in innovative solutions to ensure social and environmental concerns are at the forefront of all of our business operations.

• Assist in infrastructure and application deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, particularly Terraform
• Implement, maintain, and develop the company’s modern application hosting environment, including RKE2, Rancher, Longhorn, Docker, and source control (Git)
• Provide third-line support for the Kubernetes (K8s) environment and supporting infrastructure and management tools, including reacting to observability alerts and reports
• Implement, maintain, and develop the Observability platform, including Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Alert Manager
• Provision, configure, and maintain Ubuntu servers; investigate Linux-level performance, service, logging, disk, memory, and connectivity issues
• Assist with monitoring and alert management for infrastructure and applications
• Provide 2nd/3rd line technical support for infrastructure-related issues

• Demonstrable, hands-on experience with Linux server administration in a production environment
• Strong understanding of containerisation — Docker and Kubernetes — and experience managing workloads in a Kubernetes cluster
• Hands-on experience with Rancher for Kubernetes cluster management and lifecycle
• Experience configuring and maintaining Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and observability
• Experience with VMware vSphere / ESXi for virtualisation management
• Good working knowledge of the Microsoft stack: Active Directory, Entra ID / Azure AD, Microsoft 365, and Azure
• Ability to write scripts and automate tasks (Bash, PowerShell, or Python)

Why SOCOTEC?

Here at SOCOTEC UK, we have over 2,000 colleagues across our divisions delivering world-class services to our customers. We provide an unrivalled range of testing, inspection, and certification services throughout the UK, and we deliver excellence to our customers by recruiting and retaining the very best industry talent. As a Service Desk Manager, you will play a pivotal role in providing these services.

We offer transversal career pathways as well as linear pathways, and we will support you in attaining a portfolio career in one place. Not to mention the possibility of working locally, nationally, or globally, in the office or remotely. We are committed to your personal and professional development, and you will be supported in every step of your journey with us. #YouGrowWeGrow