Senior Application Support & DevOps Engineer

Senior Application Support & DevOps Engineer

UK (Remote) | Up to £75,000

Candidates MUST be a UK National and eligible for NPPV2 / Home Office Clearance

 

We’re partnering with a global software consultancy as they expand into the UK, following the award of a major multi-year programme with a UK Defence client. This is a rare opportunity to join at the ground level of their UK growth, playing a key role in delivering and supporting a high-profile, security-critical platform.

 

The Role

As their Senior Application Support & DevOps Engineer, you’ll act as the UK-based technical lead, owning live production systems and working directly with clients in a secure, high-stakes environment.

You’ll be hands-on across incident management, system reliability, and DevOps improvements, collaborating closely with global engineering teams.

 

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own and support UK-hosted production systems in a secure environment
• Act as the primary UK technical contact for clients
• Deliver L2/L3 support, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
• Lead incident response and manage live production issues
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and operational processes
• Work closely with offshore Dev & QA teams to resolve issues and drive improvements

 

What's important for this role

• Proven ability to independently support live production environments
• Strong experience in DevOps & Cloud (AWS/Azure)
• Experience in high-pressure, incident-driven environments
• Solid development background in .NET (C#), JavaScript
• Strong SQL Server experience in production settings
• Understanding of web architecture, APIs, and secure integrations
• Good knowledge of database performance and optimisation

 

Why Join?

• Be part of a new UK venture backed by a successful global consultancy
• Work on a long-term, high-profile government programme
• Opportunity to shape the UK team and future projects
• Fully remote role (with future UK hub planned – Manchester or Milton Keynes)
• Competitive salary up to £75,000

 

Due to the nature of the clients work, all candidates MUST be UK Nationals and either already have had NPPV2 / UK Home Office Security Clearance or eligible for it.

 

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