The Role
Design, deliver and automate secure cloud-native platforms and CI/CD pipelines. Use IaC and container technologies, lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, improve practices, and support production maintenance and security.
Summary Generated by Built In
Please note: This role requires applicants to hold active, or recently active, SC or DV clearance.
This role also requires applicants to be willing to work on-site up to 4 days per week.
At Gemba Advantage, we design and run secure, cloud‑native platforms for critical public‑sector organisations across the UK. Our teams build and automate the infrastructure and pipelines that high‑impact systems depend on.
We’re looking for experienced DevOps Engineers who want to shape modern delivery, lead technical decisions, and work with people who care about doing things properly. You’ll help design and evolve cloud environments, improve engineering practices, and solve challenging problems alongside our customers.
The Role:
- Design and deliver robust automation, platforms, and CI/CD pipelines for complex systems
- Use Infrastructure as Code and cloud‑native tooling to create secure, scalable environments
- Lead technical reviews, guide engineering decisions, and support fault fixing and maintenance
- Mentor engineers, improve ways of working, and champion continuous improvement and security
What you'll bring:
- Active, or recently active, SC or DV clearance (essential)
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (Like AWS) and production environments
- Deep hands‑on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) and Kubernetes/Docker
- Confidence designing and operating secure CI/CD pipelines, using Git and modern DevOps practices
- Practical experience with databases, APIs, programming/scripting languages, and a range of operating systems
Tech we commonly use
- Terraform - CloudFormation - CDK
- AWS - Kubernetes - Docker
- Git - CI/CD - GitOps
- Elasticsearch - MongoDB - relational DBs
- Python - Go - Bash
Why join Gemba?
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.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we recognise, and studies confirm, that often underrepresented candidates in the workplace are less likely to apply to roles unless they meet all skills and experience of the position.
At Gemba we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, therefore we make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon age, race, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, or pregnancy, and actively welcome applications from all groups.
About
Gemba Advantage make high-impact software that is secure, scalable and sustainable. Our experience and expertise allows us to succeed inside and alongside our customers’ exacting operational environments. We make software that makes a difference.
Skills Required
- Active or recently active SC or DV security clearance
- Willingness to work on-site up to four days per week
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and production environments
- Deep hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
- Designing and operating secure CI/CD pipelines; Git and GitOps practices
- Practical experience with databases (Elasticsearch, MongoDB, relational DBs), APIs, and multiple OSes
- Programming/scripting experience (Python, Go, Bash)
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical reviews/architecture decisions
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The Company
What We Do
Gemba Advantage designs and builds high-impact, secure, scalable, and sustainable software solutions, focusing on user-centric, cloud-native products for the public sector and social good.
