About the Role
Checkpoint Solutions is looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our growing engineering team. You'll play a key role in designing, building and maintaining scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines while mentoring junior engineers and driving engineering best practices.
Working closely with Product, QA and Development teams, you'll contribute to the technical direction of our infrastructure and help deliver high-quality, reliable systems that support business growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Lead technical design discussions and architectural decisions.
- Write clean, maintainable and well-tested infrastructure-as-code.
- Review code and mentor junior engineers.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver new features and platform improvements.
- Troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term solutions.
- Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
- Champion system reliability, performance and security.
Skills & ExperienceEssential
- 5+ years' commercial DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar).
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with Git and version control workflows.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
Desirable
- Relevant cloud certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, Azure certifications, etc.).
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Knowledge of scripting languages (Python, Bash, or similar).
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical projects.
- Background in security automation or compliance tooling.
Benefits
- Annual performance bonus
- Hybrid working (3 days office / 2 days home)
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Enhanced pension contribution
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance (4x salary)
- Annual salary review
- £1,500 annual learning & development budget
- Paid professional certifications
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Free on-site parking
- Regular team socials and company events
Apply
If you're passionate about building reliable, scalable infrastructure, enjoy solving complex technical challenges and want to work with a collaborative engineering team, we'd love to hear from you.
Pay: £77,306.48-£80,446.03 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
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